Posted on 01/09/2020 3:39:28 PM PST by Viking2002
Interesting.
What is the basis for their concern?
I ran my gas-powered pressure-washer for two hours yesterday, here in the SF Bay Area. I do that every new year to clean the exterior stucco and concrete walkways. No way am I going to stop using gasoline-powered tools. Someone ought to take a chainsaw to these state legislators (gasoline-powered of course).
2006 - Power mower power grab
Nine years ago, I predicted lawn mowers would one day fall victim to onerous and unnecessary air pollution standards from the Environmental Protection Agency, despite Clinton EPA Administrator Carol Browner having stated in sworn testimony to Congress in 1997 that such regulations are “not about outdoor barbecues and lawn mowers.” Frank O’Donnell, then-executive director of the Clean Air Trust, called talk of regulating lawn mowers “crazed propaganda.”
Today, however, EPA openly seeks to set pollution standards for lawn mowers that would supposedly cut smog-causing emissions 35 percent. As for Mr. O’Donnell, he’s now president of Clean Air Watch where he’s working hard to carry out that “crazed propaganda.”
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/oct/24/20061024-090447-1294r/
Can’t they use little whisk brooms in place of leaf blowers?
Actually, I expected the ban DECADES AGO considering how much they pollute (which is much, much, worse than a car), but I guess the lobby there was strong enough to prevent it...not to mention that banning these don’t necessary advance Social Justice, part of the reason for their regulations (I heard that first-hand, many years ago there, from one of the top regulators - that’s how bad things were in California, even back then).
As it is, most of the 2-cycle engines can now be replaced with Lithium Ion batteries, and have equal performance. So, for homeowners, it’s not really a big deal.
However, this will be a total pain in the butt for gardeners, as they’ll have to buy a bunch of batteries and figure out how to keep recharging them. But on the bright side, for them, they won’t have to deal with cleaning out, or replace, carburetors. They’ll quickly figure that out and appreciate it.
For 4-cycle engines (pretty much only lawn mowers/tractors have to be 4-cycle)...I haven’t researched that yet, but while they pollute less, they still pollute far more than a car, unless they have a catalytic converter on their exhaust. I also don’t know the plan in California.
CACA is also considering an initiative that will require annual smog checks on gas powered lawnmowers.
Racists.
How do you mow golf courses then? Tesla doesn’t make yard tractors
Golf courses are very bad for the environment.
I laugh at my neighbor using a battery-powered weed whacker, he'll run it for 5 to 10 minutes and then have to recharge for using it the next day to complete the task. Meanwhile, my gasoline-powered weed whacker runs forever on a tank and does ten times as much work. Battery-powered garden tools suck. All my garden tools are gasoline-powered (chainsaws, hedge-trimmer, lawn edger, mower, weed whacker, rototiller, pressure-washer, etc.). Hint to other California users: I bleed off the ethanol before using the gasoline in my tools.
The Democrats continue the Californication of California.
This is cultural assassination of the Mexican Bagpipe symphony.
Meanwhile the bumper to bumper jet aircraft on approach to LAX are laying down tons of jet exhaust, totally dusting the entire population.
“Molon lobe!”
From my cold dead fingers!
The right to keep and bear gas powered garden tools shall not be infringed!
And Taco Bell will be the only restaurant allowed...
Underground rata anyone?
The armies of illegal alien blower battalions need to unionize and fight to keep their blowers and weed eaters.
This makes so much sense.
There are enough syringes laying around in California that may be used instead.
This would definitely be an anti-illegal alien law.
I think it would be exactly the opposite.
We call them the Blow and Go Hombres!
They park their loud pickups on the street and fire up their untuned gasoline powered leaf blowers.
Then, they blow the leaves off the walks,decks and yards into the street. Then, they leave the leafs in the street and head to their next Blow and go, 2 minute gig.
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