Get Ready for the Next Idiotic Battleground: Activists Are Now Targeting Lawnmowers

[Kamaji]

Get Ready for the Next Idiotic Battleground: Activists Are Now Targeting Lawnmowers

By Brad Slager
May 03, 2023

Another day, another empty claim that we need to alter our lifestyles to appease the power-mad brokers of our country. The latest hectoring harbinger is that our landscaping equipment is murdering the planet, so changes need to be enforced. This is what the over-educated and under-employed generations have wrought; the constant grazing for the next offense that needs to be addressed.

USA Today delivers this latest solution to a wholly manufactured problem, claiming that the lawn mower and the leaf blowers used by your lawn service are the most pernicious producers of deadly emissions, saying “Regulators and clean-air advocates are increasingly eyeing the pollution emitted by small gasoline engines.” Get ready for the hyperbolic, uber-idiotic proclamations, with high-priced solutions attached.

While many critics first attacked the small engines for the noise they make, experts say these small, two-stroke engines release shockingly large amounts of pollution – two problems that modern and increasingly affordable electric-powered equipment solves. Advocates say that in addition to the climate-changing emissions released by the engines, workers are exposed directly to their exhaust and rarely wear filters to protect their lungs.

Then, as if they have not already granted us permission to stop listening to these “experts”, get a load of this fertilizer-quality claim that is made to justify their outrage.

Environmentalists say using a commercial gas leaf blower for an hour produces emissions equal to driving from Denver to Los Angeles.

Yes, environmentalists say quite a lot of things. And if they would just shut up CO2 emissions just might plunge precipitously. Who exactly is going to buy that the global impact of a drive cross-country is exceeded by me running my Husqvarna Maple Blaster 2000 for an hour?! This is the kind of hysteria that needs to be pointed out. And then laughed at, loudly.

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Source:  https://redstate.com/bradslager/2023/05/03/get-ready-for-the-next-idiotic-battleground-activists-are-now-targeting-lawnmowers-n740581

[bigheadfred]

Yes, environmentalists say quite a lot of things. And if they would just shut up CO2 emissions just might plunge precipitously. Who exactly is going to buy that the global impact of a drive cross-country is exceeded by me running my Husqvarna Maple Blaster 2000 for an hour?! This is the kind of hysteria that needs to be pointed out. And then laughed at, loudly.

They meant emissions from an EV.

[Smokin Joe]

Yes, environmentalists say quite a lot of things. And if they would just shut up CO2 emissions just might plunge precipitously. Who exactly is going to buy that the global impact of a drive cross-country is exceeded by me running my Husqvarna Maple Blaster 2000 for an hour?! This is the kind of hysteria that needs to be pointed out. And then laughed at, loudly.

They meant emissions from an EV.

Have any of them actually taken an EV across the country? There have been some particularly challenged journeys fighting wind and terrain, and not getting charged up often enough. Besides, where did they get their electricity? What was emitted in producing that?

All their ridiculous bullshit is getting tedious.