Posted on 11/07/2022 2:44:13 PM PST by rey
EDITOR: Feeling glum after reading that greenhouse gas emissions hit a record high, I took my dogs to the park. To enter, I held my breath to get by four employees from the Petaluma parks department with gas-powered leaf blowers. Now I’m really down because gas-powered blowers are huge contributors of greenhouse gases.
The California Air Resources Board says operating a gas leaf blower for an hour leads to the emission of as much smog-based pollution as driving a Toyota Camry for 1,100 miles. Margaret Renkl of the New York Times quoted one expert saying that “hydrocarbon emissions from a half-hour of yard work with the two-stroke leaf blower are about the same as a 3,900-mile drive from Texas to Alaska in a Raptor (a heavy-duty Ford truck).”
Please, can parks and rec switch to electric blowers? We are switching vehicles to electric, but these gas blowers emit more greenhouse pollutants than even our vehicles.
ANNA COOPERSMITH
Petaluma
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.
Ya think?
Total bs.
Or else the cars are so incredibly clean they aren’t harming anything.
It’s not just 2 stroke, it’s the fact cars have catalytic converters that burn up a lot of things that engines without them just blow our in their exhaust
For a leaf blower? Good gawd, man! It would either have a gas tank big enough that it took a three-man crew to wield it. Or they would be refilling it every 10 minutes while someone else shuttled between the job site and a gas station.
“I looked up a couple of studies. One had blowers using 47 3/4 gallons an hour.”
Apparently they had the same math teacher as our president.
Anna just pulled this out her gas blowing ass.
Atmospheric CO2 follows global temperatures, it does not cause them.
The oceans sequester more CO2 than any other CO2 sink.
The colder the oceans get, the more CO2 they can absorb.
When the oceans get warmer, they expel CO2
You can see the yearly fluctuation in the Mauna Loa graph as the Pacific Ocean warms and cools with the seasons.
I think it time to start throwing a few of these alarmists into wood chippers.
Anna should buy a F^&*%ing rake and help clean up you have enough time to take your pooch to a special park so you have time to pitch in. Or cut down all the trees and plant pine where you don’t have to clean up.
Plenty of solutions here ANNA or is it WAAANNNNAAAA
Yeah, I can Google any “expert” I wish who will support any cockamamie idea I can think of. Experts. Pffft...
Agreed!
I do like the moniker of WAAANNNNAAAA.
Racist. Think about it.
Or at least make them spend a N. Dakota winter in a yurt with dung fires for heating and cooking.
Fond of 2 strokes and cutting edge tech to make them better, that's another subject for another day.
However the big 3 could have offered an offset to retrofit all of CA w/ E-weed wackers etc instead of 2 strokes to help w/ pickup / SUV Sales. Sadly the Eco-Totalitarians of the CARB wouldn't go for such a thing is my guess....
MATH HAS NEVER BEEN THE STRONG POINT OF THE ENVIROS
The general populace has fallen way behind also in math-—so they don’t see the bad numbers, either
Around here these are known as Mexican bagpipes.
Apparently no one has taken any physics classes. Mass… energy. Remember those two words?
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