Basically, the argument boils down to 2 points:
1. Fahrenheit is more granular, by design
2. Americans are used to Fahrenheit and learning new things is not cognitively free.
Fahrenheit, as a scale, was created in a similar fashion to Celsius. But then the Fahrenheit scale was multiplied by 4. Like Celsius, Fahrenheit starts at freezing and boiling points - of brine (salt water), not pure water. This gives a lower freezing point (and boiling point?). Then that output was multiplied by 4, giving us the scale we have today.
My preferred solution is a compromise -- create a new temperature scale that is just Celsius multiplied by 4. On this scale:
* Water freezes at 0 degrees
* A nice room temperature is 80 degrees
* Water boils at 400 degrees
* Your oven dial would run from 260 degrees to 1040 degrees.
