Posted on 02/17/2020 7:42:01 PM PST by TigerClaws
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WGEM) — A Senate bill in Illinois would ban the use or sale of gas-powered leaf blowers in the state.
Illinois Senator Laura Fine (D) SB3313 filed last week by Senator Laura Fine (D) of the 9th Senate District amends the Environmental Protection Act. It states that "a person may not operate or sell at retail a gas-powered leaf blower in the State. Provides that a person who violates the amendatory Act's provisions shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $500."
The bill lists environmental and noise pollution as the reasons for the ban.
It states that two-stroke and four-stroke engines used in gas-powered leaf blowers emit exceedingly high rates of pollutants, including carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides, and hydrocarbons.
These emissions, the bill states, are a contributing factor to smog formation and acid rain.
The bill also claims that leaf blowers generate noise at a decibel level capable of causing hearing loss in a short amount of time.
In addition, it states that leaf blowers send dust and other small particles like metals, allergens, and animal feces into the air for considerable distances.
If signed into law, the bill would make use or sale of a gas-powered leaf blower illegal in the state of Illinois as of January 1, 2022.
Violators of the law would be subject to a fine up to $500.
You know what else emits CO2? My fat ass and a rake.
Why not execution? I don't live in town just so I don't have to put up with city ordinances like this, but this is statewide! Who wants to live in Illinois with politicians like this? Not me.
She’ll have to rip it offa my cold dead back!
If it puts animal feces in the air, good. The least I can do is hope they make it back to the neighbors dogs who crap over here. Although I can’t recall ever leaf-blowing any turds.
Illegal aliens and children hit the hardest.
GOV. PRITZKER and the DEMOCRAT super majority want Illinoisans to hire illegals to do what gasoline leaf blowers can do in a fraction of the time.
Finally, common sense from Illinois.
Ban these blooming noisey machines.
Tar and feathers.
Just for
The noise. On a Sunday.
Yess
Ban them
No more Mexican bagpipes?
“You know what else emits CO2? My fat ass and a rake.”
You are CO2 neutral related to digestive gases.
LOL
Glad they made it clear they were gas powered blowers being referred to.
Lot of girls in Chicago’s South Side would have been in a panic.
It’s not about the environment. It’s about destroying our stnadard of living so tehy can control us.
Greta Thornbug thanks them...
Are illegal aliens exempt from this racist law?
Senior citizens should rise up against this. Age discrimination. They don’t have the ability to rake leaves.
mexican bagpipes
There are noisy and throw a lot of dirt and dust into the air.
Not me. I can even run myself out of an unventilated room with a trail of flames shooting behind my Wranglers. I've run our cats out of my den on more than one occasion. LOL
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