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California moves toward ban on gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers (chainsaws, weed trimmers, golf carts)
LA Times via MSN ^ | 10/10/21 | Phil Willon

Posted on 10/10/2021 12:58:11 AM PDT by Libloather

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To: GOP Poet

I have a 9 acre lawn and a 60-in zero turn mower fortunately I live in Kentucky so my country doesn’t have this restriction.


21 posted on 10/10/2021 5:27:47 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Maudeen

Personally, I think it’s funny. That’s all we’re left to do and when I don’t go there anymore.


22 posted on 10/10/2021 5:28:44 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Libloather

Kick California out of America.


23 posted on 10/10/2021 5:29:41 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Libloather

“Ban gas.”.

Difficult in a state full of taco trucks


24 posted on 10/10/2021 5:39:22 AM PDT by Cowman
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To: Libloather

Energy is needed to generate the electricity. It comes mostly from fossil fuels, with a huge loss of efficiency. It’s not about efficiency. It’s about making everyone miserable, and then installing totalitarianism.


25 posted on 10/10/2021 5:47:35 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Buy a Let's Go Brandon! sticker. Show your disdain for the maniac in the White House. I did.)
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To: Libloather

In a sane world, you would think that people elected to run things would triage issues and focus on things such as improving fragile water resources, fostering business investment to raise tax receipts, and addressing crumbling roadways and bridges.

Instead, they seem to spend all their time deliberately destroying things that might help people and fostering things that will destroy society.

There was once upon a time I thought these people doing this were simply stupid and incompetent, but...that was decades ago.

They aren’t doing all these things through stupidity and incompetency, though those characteristics make their deconstruction of our society and culture far more efficient.

Their overriding motive is hatred and malice.


26 posted on 10/10/2021 5:48:12 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Libloather

As soon as liberals figure out how to drink electricity, they won’t need water anymore. And that would make the southern California desert area open to even more people. Easy Peasy.


27 posted on 10/10/2021 5:49:51 AM PDT by Bernard (The very best scientific articles always contain this phrase: “My personal intuition has been…”)
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To: Prole; Libloather
This is the person originating the bill. Make of it what you will:

Normally, I don't use Wikipedia for anything beyond a birthdate that is how invalid their information is, but...I think they were right on this thing.

They say he is a "Cancer". Now, I know they were referring to his Zodiac sign, but I have to agree with them.

This thing has never held a job in his life. Vermin like him and his allies are indeed a cancer.

"Coexistence" with people like that is not possible. I hope we realize that before it is too late.

28 posted on 10/10/2021 6:03:47 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Mr_Moonlight
Hmmmm ... so an electric generator must now be battery or plug-in powered?

Because minds much greater than yours have been on it.


29 posted on 10/10/2021 6:09:03 AM PDT by KevinB (''...and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: Libloather

These people are insane to the cult.


30 posted on 10/10/2021 6:20:35 AM PDT by bray (Our patience is wearing thin Joe)
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To: Libloather

Modern cars today are already zero-emitters when it comes to traditional pollutants (Hydrocarbons, Carbon Monoxide, and Nitrous Oxides), which is why the had to invent a new ‘pollutant’ (Carbon Dioxide, LOL) to stop people from driving.

But small engines still put out a boatload of (real) pollutants, although 4-stroke engines, too, could likely be zero’d out with systems similar to what’s used in cars, but the relative cost would be huge (computer controlled fuel injectors with catalytic converters and dual oxygen sensors). For 2-strokes, hard to see how to clean them up...and then you have to worry about weight in those engines, since they’re rarely on wheels...so they will go battery.

But it’s going to be a mess for gardeners, and very, very, expensive for them...which means the days of nice lawns and shrubs will only exist in the future for the Jones’, since no one else will be able to keep up.


31 posted on 10/10/2021 6:24:57 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: cuban leaf

“I have a 9 acre lawn and a 60-in zero turn mower fortunately I live in Kentucky so my country doesn’t have this restriction.”

LOL, good one! You forgot the word “yet”.


32 posted on 10/10/2021 6:27:00 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: know.your.why

Read it again. It bans the SALE not use. And yes, there will be huge up tick on small engine repair needs.


33 posted on 10/10/2021 6:32:58 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: BobL

Well yeah, that goes without saying :-)


34 posted on 10/10/2021 6:34:59 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: BobL

Battery power will save the day. when my gas powered tools give it up I switch them over to a new battery unit. I am very satisfied with the newer generation that uses 28 volt batteries. Still don’t have a replacement for the Troy built rotor tiller.


35 posted on 10/10/2021 6:36:08 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Track9
"The golf courses are going to be great."

Send out herds of goats and sheep to trim them . . . oh wait, they might emit methane . . .

36 posted on 10/10/2021 6:41:11 AM PDT by Think free or die
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To: mad_as_he$$

A rototiller would need to be replaced by a good heavy duty grub hoe. That’s my go to vegetable garden and ground clearing/prep tool.


37 posted on 10/10/2021 6:45:40 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: Libloather
"This is a pretty modest approach

An outright ban is a modest approach? Do they use different dictionaries in California?

38 posted on 10/10/2021 6:54:50 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Libloather

It is an iconic sound, the sound of gas mowers, string trimmers and leaf blowers of the landscapers filling the air at gray dawn in CA.

We will see how they get on without gas power.


39 posted on 10/10/2021 7:03:01 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: Libloather

putting all the illegal yardmen out of business?


40 posted on 10/10/2021 7:17:30 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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