While the leftie loonies in New Jersey are actually trying to ban the use of gas-powered leaf blowers and other devices, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida recently enacted a comprehensive farm bill that prohibits local governments from imposing limitations on gas-powered landscaping and farming tools. This legislation addresses the rising trend of states and municipalities restricting such equipment due to their environmental impact. At a bill-signing ceremony, DeSantis stated, "If you want to use different stuff, fine, it's a free country. But I like the gas-powered better. I just think it's more reliable. If that's what you believe, then you should be able to continue to do that."
·For years, gas-powered tools like leaf blowers and tractors have been largely unregulated despite their significant contribution to air pollution. States like California are implementing measures to phase out gas-powered equipment, requiring zero carbon emissions for newly sold units starting in 2024.
·This trend toward restricting gas-powered equipment is not unique to Florida. States such as Texas and Georgia have similarly passed laws that hinder local government efforts to curtail the use of gas-powered tools. ·With no federal laws regulating these tools, states are left to establish their own rules.
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SOURCES: Daniel Gala | CBS News | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Facebook Florida Hillbilly
Ironic that the ad just below the gas-powered equipment bit is for a battery powered leaf blower. Here in The People's Republik of Washinton there is a move to do this not only for environmental reasons, but that the people most affected by 2-stroke engine pollution are "disproportionately" p.o.c,s, primarily Spanish. If white guys did most of the yard and lawn work, I wonder if there would be such a push for banning it?
ReplyDeleteWhite guys did use to do all the yard work. A lot were teenagers earning their way through school (or to buy a hotrod).
DeleteMy first paying job was watering and mowing newly laid sod for homes in the development my family moved into outside D.C. We were the second family to move in. Paid well for 1970 and got me out into the fresh air and sun. And I lost 14 pounds that summer. Good hard work for decent pay.
DeleteLove to see the moonbats try that with snowblowers in NY/Jersey.
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I had an electric golf cart here in The Villages. POS actually. Every three years, new set of six batteries running about $1,600. Got rid of it for a gas cart. I figure that in three years I burn up about 19-20 gallons of gas. It seems to me that manufacturing and disposing of six car sized batteries every three years is harder on the environment that producing 20 gallons of gas. A hell of a lot harder on my wallet too. Of course I need an oil change or two in that same period of time. Cart holds one quart so there is that.
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