Illinois also wants to make pumping your own gas illegal. So some state licensed/union employee will now determine whether you get gas or not.
Hope your not in a hurry. Oh, and don’t have a bumper sticker they don’t like.
Next on the ban list. How about generators? Can’t have you able to provide for yourself just because the electrical grid is a unreliable.
This state is crap.
All the “leaf blowers bother me”, so “i’m for banning it” posts are a big problem here. Sounds like half the folks posting here are for Democracy. With a big D.
If most folks want leaf blowers banned, where is the protection for the minority of folks that want to keep them. Use them. Protect their investment in them.
Protection of a minority’s property rights is Republicanism.
First mower I used as a kid was an old reel mower you pushed, not fast but kept sharp and they cut nicely. We used clippers for edging and brooms for cleaning up the mess.
“”The bill lists environmental and noise pollution as the reasons for the ban.
It states that two-stroke and four-stroke engines used in gas-powered leaf blowers emit exceedingly high rates of pollutants, including carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides, and hydrocarbons.
These emissions, the bill states, are a contributing factor to smog formation and acid rain.””
They’ll worry about lawn equipment but not say a word about Motorcycles or recreational vehicles. Put the same emission controls on all motors and it would be a whole new world.
Because God knows Illinois has no more pressing issues facing them for the legislature to deal with.
What about these gas powered vacuums that blow leaves into a truck that takes them to a facility to compost them into leaf humus?
Sleep well tonight, Illinois. Your gummint got your back.
So they will use electricity, which is generated by coal and oil.
Little by little, they want to eliminate anything powered by gas or oil. And that includes electrical power plants, which they will eventually require to be windmills and/or solar cells.
I didn’t realize that there were so many sheltered, nanny state Freepers
Mommy, ban them, they’re noisy
Mommy, ban them, they’re smelly
Mommy, ban them, they’re dirty
Mommy, I have to turn the volume up on my TV to watch old reruns of Full House when they run their leaf blowers! Make the government make them stop!
It used to take me and my three teen boys an entire Saturday to rake my leaves. which we had to do 3-4 times every fall. Blisters. Muscle aches.
Then my wife gave me a Stihl backpack leaf blower. Gas powered. You can’t get the same power with electric and you don’t have to worry about the cord. I finish the job in 2 hours now, by myself. And the entire neighborhood is doing their leaves with gas-powered leaf blowers.
Many years ago had a neighbor who mowed his lawn at 630 on Saturday morning. Right next to my bedroom window. Asked him to stop so he then went to 6 am. I went and bought some rough cut oak and set up my planer outside right next to his living room where his TV stood. Waited till he started watching a show and started my planer...it was loud. Did that every evening till I ran out of oak probably 10 days worth. He quit mowing his lawn.
Life in the US is so grand having all our problems solved so we’re down to regulating leaf blowers.
landscape companies seek new venue
Why do they hate illegal immigrants?