Nothing more maddening than being at home on a gorgeous late summer and autumn weekend, opening the windows and being assaulted by the infernal noise from multiple leaf blowers.
Most homeowners seem to place little value on their free time which is why they purchase power tools based on price. They will spend $100 on a cheap leaf blower and then spend 4 hours trying to blow leaves with it.
I could almost support banning gas powered leaf blowers below a certain capacity. Let the pro's and intelligent homeowners continue to use higher capacity gas leaf blowers but shift the cheap ones that cause most of the noise problems to electric.
I agree with you on the leaf blowers