Gas blower ban in MoCo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm seeing gas blower use everywhere in the county. Must be a relaxed law.

I'm so surprised. I thought hispanic people (most of our landscapers) were playing it super safe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We just had four tall oak trees removed. All our neighbors are mad at us because they provided some much shade and we told them the men that cuts our lawn told us they may double or triple the price of a leaf clean up so we decided to just have the trees removed.

That was probably the pragmatic thing to do. I think lots of people will be removing trees in the future when faced with the added costs of leaf clean up without gas blowers. It’s a matter of economics. If trees cost too much to keep around, people are going to remove them.

I seriously doubt this logic. Tree removal costs thousands per tree.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm seeing gas blower use everywhere in the county. Must be a relaxed law.

I'm so surprised. I thought hispanic people (most of our landscapers) were playing it super safe.

Most are citizens.

[Anonymous]

It's wonderful, our neighbor isn't being blasted by gas blowers at 7:30 am everyday.

We have an electric blower for leaves in the fall, the electric ones are significantly quieter, just require recharging the battery.

[Anonymous]

Thank God MoCo pols are worried about gas leafblowers and banning the use of roundup to help control weeds. Meanwhile crime is out of control, the local economy has stagnated for decades, schools keep declining and they keep raising taxes for the privilege of all of this.

Amazing priorities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know people pay a fortune for two or three leaf cleanups on half acre and acre lots every year. They have five guys with walk behind blowers and back pack blowers. They have a large vacuum truck that sucks them up at the end of the day. I'm thinking they pay between 1200 and 1500 for an all day cleanup.

They are stupid people because leaves can be left alone and they provide nutrients for the soil as they decompose. Nobody needs to pay 1000’s of dollars to avoid some free compost. That’s on them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think some homes already caught fire and burnt down. Expensive homes too. Think about the amount of batteries that get thrown away with the weekly trash. They only last one or two years.

As if gasoline has never burned a house before. So stooooooopid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We just had four tall oak trees removed. All our neighbors are mad at us because they provided some much shade and we told them the men that cuts our lawn told us they may double or triple the price of a leaf clean up so we decided to just have the trees removed.

That was probably the pragmatic thing to do. I think lots of people will be removing trees in the future when faced with the added costs of leaf clean up without gas blowers. It’s a matter of economics. If trees cost too much to keep around, people are going to remove them.

I seriously doubt this logic. Tree removal costs thousands per tree.

You would be surprised how cheap it is.

[Anonymous]

We had prices on a 75 foot dead tree. It was about six foot in diameter at the base. First price was $5000. Three prices were in between $5000 and $900. We went with the $900. They were gone before we got out of bed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. White people with nothing to do are annoying. Who gives a crap about gas leaf blowers? Get a life and stop caring about trivialities.

-1. They are so loud. You can hear them from blocks away. Have you ever been on a call when they turn them on? Or put a baby down to nap? They are just so loud and they stink.

But all lawn mowing equipment is loud. Why leaf blowers and not mowers? They are loud and use gas.

+1 This ban is completely unscientific and myopic. In the US, gasoline powered lawn equipment accounts for around 0.3% of total CO2 emissions, less than 0.7% of total PM2.5 emissions and 4% of Total VOC emissions. Leaf blowers account for less than 10% of total emissions for gasoline powered lawn and garden equipment. Under the most optimistic assumptions this leaf blower ban will reduce emissions (in MOCO) of PM2.5 by 0.1%, and VOC emissions by 0.5%. THIS IS A VERY COSTLY POLICY, that provides basically no health benefits to county residents while burdening business owners.

How many people sit inline at the Starbucks in their big gas burning suv or the Chick-fil-A line burning gas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are they going to ban the electric ones too? Because they are just as loud and annoying.

Right? How does OP know it is a banned gas blower from blocks away?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank God MoCo pols are worried about gas leafblowers and banning the use of roundup to help control weeds. Meanwhile crime is out of control, the local economy has stagnated for decades, schools keep declining and they keep raising taxes for the privilege of all of this.

Amazing priorities.

There is no value to living in Moco anymore. Large swathes of it have just as much crime as the middling parts of DC, with schools that are just as bad if not worse, and the traffic is way worse than DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank God MoCo pols are worried about gas leafblowers and banning the use of roundup to help control weeds. Meanwhile crime is out of control, the local economy has stagnated for decades, schools keep declining and they keep raising taxes for the privilege of all of this.

Amazing priorities.

Maybe the MD economy is why the bridge is so crowded from MD to VA in the morning?

[Anonymous]

Well well well, look at these “unintended consequences“ that anybody with half a brain could see coming a mile away.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1KR4n8o9SF/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank God MoCo pols are worried about gas leafblowers and banning the use of roundup to help control weeds. Meanwhile crime is out of control, the local economy has stagnated for decades, schools keep declining and they keep raising taxes for the privilege of all of this.

Amazing priorities.

They have 20 year old illegals in middle school too. Can you imagine if your daughter has one in her class.