Look out the window, see that blue sky?
It’s not falling chicken little...
Define pollution.
“Years ago, some sharp person here set me straight on how one gallon of fuel, approximately 8 lbs, could produce gases weighing more than the original fuel by combining with other atmospheric gases.”
As silly as saying combining an atom of Oxygen with two atoms of Hydrogen makes something else that is heavy.
With no gas powered lawn mower to “protect the environment” are they going to use scissors, or are they going to open more rare earth mines for lithium batteries and toxic waste dumps for disposal next to the new nuclear reactors to recharge the batteries?
Pollution from a lawn mower degrades in the environment in a month, waste from a reactor is deadly toxic longer than mans recorded history.
Leave it to a heathen to find a fools solution to a non problem.
One gasoline engine has POWER, which means speed, efficiency,
AND has multiple attachments:
blower, hedge trimmer, chain saw, weed trimmer, snow blower, etc ALL IN ONE.
Plus the engine has a separate electric starter.
Electric SUCKS, it is for wimps.
Yet another appliance to be made outrageously expensive through regulation.
You said, “why”? Please report to your nearest regional People Republic of Kalafornia re-education center for further instructions.
It’s for the children.
They must be using the same CARB guy that bungled their diesel calculations some years ago for trucks at the ports.
I hear he started a gardening business and used gas powered blowers and mowers and did quite well. course, my hearing ain’t what it used to be,, but neither is the battle against climate change in california, the foremost of which is in need of a good flush of the stinky manure ponds of the state legislature in Stinkymento.
Wait for the $5000 Dyson mower.
The only way a lawnmower produces more pollution than 43 cars is if the 43 cars are parked.
They should run on Cuss.
Plenty of it everywhere on the planet, free, 100% renewable, clean burning, no environmental impact, won’t stain garage floors or driveways, and with Trump as President there is now a surplus.
Warning: it’s difficult to contain and mothers everywhere will slap the snot out of your skull if they catch you using it within earshot. It also causes cancer in California.
Baloney. How in the hell does my mower which only uses 3-4 gallons A YEAR (while mowing a 1/4 acre every week) produce more pollution than 43 cars that drive 516,000 miles?
Even if those cars got 40 MPG that would require 12900 gallons of gasoline.
Even if i used 10 times what i use, 40 gallons pollutes more than 12900? Who believes that?
How much pollution is caused making all that gasoline? How much pollution is caused making the electricity for the battery powered mowers. How much pollution is made MAKING the battery powered mowers AND batteries versus a gas powered mower?
I also don’t believe for a minute that a battery powered mower will last nearly as long as a gas powered mower. Mine is going on 20 years now and shows no sign of slowing down.
As as been said on this thread, it is all about control. Whatever lie will work to get that control they will use.
“Lawnmower produces more pollution than 43 cars”
This is just plain RIDICULOUS on its face.
Define pollution, define the “lawnmower”, define the 43 cars, define produces, what measure of use?
How many MILES does the average homeowner drive their lawnmower? Lawn mowers (tractors) measure usage in HOURS not miles, There is a reason for that.
How many gallons of gasoline do you put in your car per year vs your lawnmower? I have no idea about my car (because it is a very LARGE amount over very many fuelings), but I can make a good guess about my lawnmower, (about 5 five gallon cans, I have a big yard).
I’m not going to entertain this ridiculous idea for even a nanosecond. It could only be true in some manufactured, tortured, use of statistics.
I’m sure all of the well known golf courses, like Pebble Beach, Riviera, Palm Springs, etc., will just abandon the mowers and blowers to let the grasses grow (NOT)!
Do people have to be pre-diagnosed as mentally unstable before they are suitable to hold office in the CA State Legislative or Executive branches?