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Minnesota Democrat lawmakers push ban on gas-powered lawn mowers, chainsaws to curb 'climate pollution'
FOX Business ^ | February 18, 2023 | By Emily Robertson

Posted on 02/18/2023 6:27:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers are proposing a pair of bills that would significantly impact the state's backyards and neighborhood ice rinks in an effort to combat climate change.

State Reps. Jerry Newton and Heather Edelson, members of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, introduced legislation on Monday that would block the sale of common landscaping appliances like lawn mowers and chainsaws as well ice resurfacing machines such as Zambonis, requiring that only electric battery versions be sold in the state starting Jan. 1, 2025.

The ban on lawn and garden equipment would include any machine that uses "a spark ignition engine rated at or below 19 kilowatts or 25 gross horsepower." Commonly used landscaping tools like lawn mowers, leaf blowers, hedge clippers, chainsaws, lawn edgers, string trimmers and brush cutters would all be prohibited by that definition.

The measure follows a Democrat-backed clean energy bill signed into law by Gov. Tim Walz that requires electricity production be 80% carbon-free by 2030 and 100% by 2040. Republicans labeled it the "blackout bill."

"DFLers are committed to taking action on climate – unchecked climate pollution threatens Minnesota’s future," House Speaker Melissa Hortman said after lawmakers passed the bill, according to Alpha News. "Now is the time to take bold action and ensure Minnesotans have the healthy climate and clean energy future they deserve."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: carbonpropaganda; climatehoax; dfl; ecofascism; emowers; fakescience; globalwarming; heatheredelson; hoax; jerrynewton; lawnmowers; minnesota; propaganda; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just out of curiosity, how many mowers and chainsaws need to be banned to offset one train wreck?


101 posted on 02/18/2023 10:04:53 AM PST by null and void (You can’t have a police state without a state police.)
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To: afchief

How do you really feel?


102 posted on 02/18/2023 10:07:01 AM PST by null and void (You can’t have a police state without a state police.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
 
 
They're trying to put on a ban like this right now in Dallas, Texas.
 
 

103 posted on 02/18/2023 11:36:23 AM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: afchief

Dayum, dude, don’t hold back! Say what you really mean!


104 posted on 02/18/2023 11:53:50 AM PST by Jacob Kell (Parents are better off sending their kids to vocational schools.)
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To: afchief

No “inbred, incestuous, evil, sheep shaggers”?


105 posted on 02/18/2023 11:55:04 AM PST by null and void (You can’t have a police state without a state police.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, Minnesota will be a good sleep place to nap during day, when they ban gas powered lawn machines.


106 posted on 02/18/2023 1:22:08 PM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: who knows what evil?

other wise know as dumb f’n liberals!!!

what have they not screwed up


107 posted on 02/18/2023 4:06:51 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

what about all the loggers, they going to use battery chainsaws????? out in the woods??


108 posted on 02/18/2023 4:08:59 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: bert

We mow almost 2 acres..... battery powered doesn’t cut it....


109 posted on 02/18/2023 6:07:19 PM PST by southernindymom
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To: BlackbirdSST

Well Newbie........ in your ignorance you have jumped off the cliff to a conclusion


110 posted on 02/19/2023 5:09:56 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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