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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My prediction is contractors will respond by buying generators and running them in the back of their pickup trucks with an extension cord to the electric leaf blower. Which will result in more noise and air pollution than gas-powered leaf blowers. [/quote]

Yup. And leaf blowers are out for only 2 months out of the year.

I'm in my mid 30s. Raking and bagging leaves is back breaking work for ME. I can't even imagine my older neighbors doing this. My neighbor's ginko and oak trees literally dump hundreds of pounds of leaves on my property in the fall. I have a cordless electric leaf blower and it's a lifesaver.

Just yesterday I collected two more garbage bags of leaves in my backyard (and this is after the big drops just two weeks ago). Overall, I'd say I've collected about 15 bags of leaves in addition to the 12' x 4' x 4' pile I left in the gutter for the city to suck up and mulch. So many leaves and there's no way I could do it without the blower. Impossible.

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The people who contract the work out will keep doing that, and the people who do it themselves will just do it with an electric leaf-blower, not a gas-powered one. And I will continue to rake. 
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