Brickbat: Leaf Them Alone

The Seattle City Council has unanimously approved a measure that would bar city employees and contractors from using gasoline-powered leaf blowers by 2025 and ban their use by city residents and businesses by 2027. Supporters cite noise and environmental concerns.

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[Jerryskids]

Hasn't California already banned gas-powered lawn equipment? Seattle is just suburban California.

[BigT]

They prefer coal powered lawnmowers?

[MatthewSlyfield]

They prefer electric or people powered.

[R Mac]

So coal?

[MatthewSlyfield]

Solar or wind powered.

[Rossami]

And yet, that can't happen even in utopian California. There aren't enough solar and wind facilities to provide the necessary power. So R Mac is right - it will come back to coal.

[Dillinger]

motor-free lawnmowers exist.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

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[Utkonos]

What about the WA/CA voters, now??

[R Mac]

I had one when I bought my first house. On a 60 foot city lot with most of the backyard landscaped, so it still only took 20 minutes.

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[Liberty Lover]

Wow, I was thinking nuclear leaf blowers.

[m40195971]

Because charging dozens of rechargeable batteries each night for the municipal landscaping force won’t cause fires. This is dumb.

This is just electric vehicle bad math all over again.

[mad.casual]

This is just electric vehicle bad math all over again.

Except enacted and enforced before the EV bad math after we did all the EV bad math, making it worse. Kinda makes you wonder if there are no wicked problems, just wicked stupid people.

[works45]

Nice One...!!!

[Liberty Lover]

Nuke leaf blowers would solve that problem, and the spent fuel rods could be buried in Yucca Mountain. Battery problems solved!

[Mockamodo]

So expect a huge auction of perfectly good gas powered equipment to happen after the city spends millions replacing them with battery powered equipment. That will happen just before you get notices that you can't use your air conditioning because the city has to be mowed.

[MatthewSlyfield]

They are talking about banning gas powered leaf blower use by residents. Expect the city's old gas powered leaf blower's to be scrapped rather than auctioned off.

[Adans smith]

This blows.

[Utkonos]

It is a steaming pile, which seems to stem from Seattle voters themselves! Figures they’d Fall for this in late September…

[Fist of Etiquette]

Few things as environmentally friendly as battery manufacture and landfills full of still-usable two-stroke engines.

[sarcasmic]

It's like Cash for Clunkers, without the cash.

[Jerry B.]

Hence the need for more illegal immigrants to rake leaves and push manual reel lawnmowers. Imagine how many they'll need to do a golf course.

[R Mac]

The golf courses used by the Nomenklatura and surrounding dachas will be exempt from this rule.

[Agammamon]

They'll be exempt - but they'll still have a legion of serfs to quietly clean.

Said serfs can take mass transit from their bunkhouses.

[Moonrocks]

Maybe more than can walk over a border. They might need to ship in minority laborers over intercontinental trade routes to fill the gaps.

[Utkonos]

Walk over the border? Seattle proggies you mean? I hear British Columbia has signs posted: TURN BACK! WE DON’T WANT YOU!!

[Liberty Lover]

How about boats to a luxury resort island were the illegals could be given sandwiches by the residents for a few hours? Then shipped back to the mainland for more work, where activist could file a lawsuit for them!

[NoVaNick]

As with EVs, it will be mostly rich suburban progs who can afford battery lawn equipment, and the landscaping companies will be forced to fire black and brown people to pay for them. The bipoc people who can’t afford anything else will also be the main targets of any enforcement actions.

[Rockstevo]

Don't think price will be the issue, they have become more in line with the price of the gas powered devices. What they are not is quieter, they just have a higher pitch and take longer to blow off the same area, so if they are trying to reduce the "irritation" factor they will be disappointed.

[NoVaNick]

The prices have come down for battery powered but will shoot back up with increased demand for lithium and other minerals due to electrification mandates, not to mention battery storage.

[Liberty Lover]

Poor people can pick up their leafs with a stick with a nail on the end of it. Then put them in plastic shopping bags for disposal. Wouldn't want paper bags they destroy trees to make them.

[Agammamon]

Instead you can use battery powered ones - still loud, still use fossil fuels, with the added benefit of using conflict minerals!

[Agammamon]

Great, non-standard batteries. Can't even just use the same brand as the batteries will differ from model to model.

Tons of e waste.

[NoVaNick]

Just rent some goats