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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

-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. [/quote]

+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%. [b]THIS IS A VERY COSTLY POLICY[/b], that provides basically no health benefits to county residents while burdening business owners. [/quote]

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

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