Posted on 10/13/2021 6:06:41 AM PDT by blam
Insanity!!!
Imagine owning a lawn service.
New smuggling items, chainsaws and lawnmowers.
Are they going to close the state border to prevent such contraband from coming in?
Imagine a green energy power blackout and it being illegal to own a backup generator.
Exemptions for the rich and their El Salvadoran lawn crews?
Is there provision in the law to prevent bringing in equipment from out of state? Imagine the enforcement difficulty in that.
I predict massive sales of this equipment at the first Home Depot, Lowe’s, Ace Hardware inside Nevada.
It’s only the portable generators that are affected. Larger whole-house generators are not. The little guy gets screwed, those rich enough to afford the above are fine.
San Francisco’s Berman thinks it is a “modest proposal”.
Man, I’d hate to see his idea of a serious proposal.
How are the lawns for the mega mansions and golf courses going to keep their lawns cut and follow the mandates? Like everything else imposed on the masses, they will have special rules for the elite.
I’m sure there is, they made it illegal to bring ammo in when they started their stupid ammo law.
More laws against Americans while illegals and other criminals can do as they please.
You simply can’t operate a landscaping service with these restrictions. I have several friends who own them.
Mowers, trimmers, blowers often run for 3-4 hours straight and travel all over a neighborhood/church grounds/fairgrounds for miles. They’d need to be recharged several times a day. Where do they do that? And while they’re charging back up, what do the workers do? Also, batteries aren’t as powerful as gas.
There’s NO upside to this.
More reasons to leave California.
I have a friend of mine in San Diego that owns a landscaping service. He is probably ready to personally and permanently ‘recall’ Adolf Newsom...
Checkpoints.
A car full of Illegals approach:
Border agent with purple hair and nose ring: Drive on thru and Bienvenidos to Californiastan! Be sure to fill out your mail-in ballots for harvesting later, hombres!
Everyone else pulls up:
Border agent: You got any fruits, vegetables, banned small gas engines? Did you vote Trump? Like guns, think there’s only two sexes. Turn around and go back, MAGAt!!!
Not officially...
The cops in those areas know which people to hassle and which ones to leave alone though...
Presumably existing equipment will be grandfathered in. So in summer of 2024 how is a Karen supposed to know if her neighbor's weed-trimmer is a year or so old or just smuggled in?
Banning the sale in CA... What about barter? Better yet, what if the owner of a lawn service drives over to Phoenix and buys equipment and comes back?
Does this mean that shipping containers full of equipment imported from China etc. can no longer be shipped through CA? After all, that is technically a "sale" right? At what point does the buyer take possession? On the docks, at a wharehouse? When/where is the "sale" and would such transactions now be illegal?
All fossil fueled "off road" vehicles? Ok, weed trimmers, lawn mowers, power washers, generators, air compressors, saws, rescue equipment, lawn tractors, motorcycles, ATVs, go-karts, RC planes... Boats? Outboards? Backhoes? Bulldozers? Just how broad and ill-conceived is this law?
This will put the small landscaping guy out of business. Where I live there are a lot of lawn services. These guys work hard and struggle to make money. The little guy will have little chance to survive. Which is the intent of course.
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