It seems to me you could light the fuel for the blower on fire and still pullover less than either vehicle mentioned. Heck, you probably could burn the blower with the fuel and pollute less than burning 216 gallons in any manner.
If the Raptor is that much less polluting, shouldn’t we power blowers with 450 hp Raptor motors instead of 2 strokes?
I looked up a couple of studies. One had blowers using 47 3/4 gallons an hour. This is obviously wrong or misstated.
When you see those numbers, they refer to a few specific components of the exhaust, including oxides of nitrogen, hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide. These are much higher in 2 stroke exhaust to begin with. Then the catalytic converters on cars remove almost all of these things, whereas small engines usually don’t a catalytic converter. It’s a comparison deliberately designed to make small engines look bad, obviously, though to be fair, in a very strict sense, it’s not wrong.
I am all in for banning the NOISE polluting contraptions. Change over to electric, batter or pushbroom.
We went to the Renaissance Festival this summer and watched a guy make a neat looking glass. After he was done he asked the crowd if there were any questions. A fellow in the crowd asked if the guy blew anything besides glass.
At the same time we can close the Martha’s Vineyard airport and allow only wind powered,or manually powered,ocean vessels to dock there.
They got rid of them ten years ago.
I love the majestic sound of Mexican Bagpipes, it means a neat and orderly yard in the beautiful fall months.
Anna...just try prying my Stihl from my cold dead fingers, gringo puta.
I know...I get a little Mexican around my blower this time ofvyear.
It would be blatant cultural repression to ban the Mexican Bagpipe.
Let’s pay homeless to pick up leaves with tweezers.
Minimum wage??
A 450 hp leaf blower would tear up your lawn. That would be so cool…
If she just moved to Venezuela, she would likely never see another leaf blower in her life
I use a gas generator to run my electric blower.