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To: cymbeline
I have trouble believing that a leaf blower running for an hour using maybe a pint of fuel, pollutes more than a Camry over 1100 miles which, at 35 miles per gallon, would burn 31 gallons of fuel.

I am glad to see someone realize the truth. CARB has made up some kind of strange test to define what pollutants are "equivalent". In terms of overall contributions to emitted gases the Camry emits much more than the leaf blower.

According to Stihl, commercial leaf blowers typically use about 50 ounces of gas per hour, or about 0.4 gallons. A 2017 Camry getting its EPA rated highway mileage of 33 mpg uses 33 gallons to go 1,100 miles. So the car is burning 82.5 times as much gasoline.

Basic chemistry teaches us that whatever mass got used in the combustion in the car's engine left the car. So the total amount of gasoline used by the Toyota ended up in the atmosphere as some kind of gas that came out the tailpipe. The same thing is true for the leaf blower once its 2 stroke engine gets a good coating of oil inside of it.

The Toyota generates 82.5 times as much output gases. Cars are carefully designed to ensure that the mix of gases produced is as harmless as possible, but the Toyota is going to make a lot of CO2 since that is the combustion gas it is optimized for.

But isn't CO2 the very gas that is of great concern for climate change activists like Gov. Newsome?

91 posted on 10/15/2021 9:12:24 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing

“The Toyota generates 82.5 times as much output gases.”

I like how you got to that conclusion.


96 posted on 10/15/2021 9:34:31 AM PDT by cymbeline
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