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California moves toward ban on gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers

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Re: California moves toward ban on gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers

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Post by chenster »

Totally second this but on a different ground. It's simply the noise it makes.

Many people have been left trapped at home, working remotely as a result of Covid. A noisy machine, such as a gas-powered leaf blower, can disrupt a peaceful neighborhood day. Imagine your neighbor to your left mowing the lawn at 8 a.m., then neighbor to your right at 9 a.m., then another cross the street started at 10 a.m., and on and on.. It made our already dismal lockdown, stay-at-home life even more despised!

We are in dire need of much quieter neighborhood leaf blower.

Re: California moves toward ban on gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers

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Post by WhisperingShiba »

ddingus wrote: post #2

Perhaps there can be a different fuel? Phase these things out in a reasonable way? That's a lot of gear needing to be replaced, and in many cases, replaced with far less effective equipment.

Only the sale of mowers are banned, I presume you can still use your old equipment until you have to replace it from wear.

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Post by ericbarrett »

bob1029 wrote: post #9

I agree with all of this simply on grounds of noise pollution. My neighbor had been running a fucking 2 stroke pressure washer engine all weekend. I'm sure he thinks he's being helpful cleaning all that concrete that people drive on, but it's hell to live next to. At what point do you get to call the cops on someone for this?

Every city I lived in in California (NorCal and SoCal) already banned use of gasoline-powered gardening equipment. But none of them ever enforced it.

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Post by Cupertino95014 »

It's funny that people who go out of their way to announce their "support" for marginalized people don't bother asking the gardeners who use them why they use them.

In California those are overwhelmingly Mexican, and they're working in the hot sun to feed their families. They use a leaf blower because it lets them get done faster and make a little more money.

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TedShiller wrote: post #10

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Re: California moves toward ban on gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers

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Post by PragmaticPulp »

This only applies to sales of new equipment starting in 2024. Existing equipment isn't banned.

Good move, IMO. Electric yard equipment is now good enough that gas alternatives aren't necessary in most cases. Lawn care professionals will have to make a moderate investment in batteries up front, but even those are becoming more affordable and easier to charge on the go.

The combination of multi-battery chargers and vehicles with built-in AC inverters (new electric F-150 is brilliant) means the batteries can even be charged straight off of the truck, eliminating the need to carry gasoline around or even stop at gas stations at all.

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Post by [deleted] »

Cupertino95014 wrote: post #14

It's funny that people who go out of their way to announce their "support" for marginalized people don't bother asking the gardeners who use them why they use them. In California those are overwhelmingly Mexican, and they're working in the hot sun to feed their families. They use a leaf blower because it lets them get done faster and make a little more money.

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Post by brianwawok »

irrational wrote: post #6
chrisbigelow wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's banning the sale of new equipment

Are we going to see a Home Depot right across the border at every major highway (just like you do between Oregon and Washington)?

Maybe, but there clearly will be less. People are lazy, and aren’t going to go through this much work.

See incandescent light bulbs. Most people bought over LED before the ban. You can buy them from China still, but most people don’t. So in the end it wins without doing some kind of crazy enforcement,

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Post by TanakaTarou »

Cupertino95014 wrote: post #14

It's funny that people who go out of their way to announce their "support" for marginalized people don't bother asking the gardeners who use them why they use them. In California those are overwhelmingly Mexican, and they're working in the hot sun to feed their families. They use a leaf blower because it lets them get done faster and make a little more money.

They can still use a leaf blower but in the future it must be electric powered instead of gasoline.
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