California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law on Saturday that will phase out the sale of gas-powered leaf blowers, lawn mowers and other small off-road engines by as soon as 2024.
Assembly Bill 1346 directs the California Air Resources Board to phase out the sale of small off-road engines by 2024 or as soon as feasible, whichever comes later. The new law also directs the board to identify and make available, where feasible, funding for commercial rebates to go toward the purchase of electric equipment.
Newsom’s signature comes a year after he signed an executive order phasing out the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035.
Under the new law, retailers will be limited to selling zero-emission equipment, such as electric- or battery-powered gear as part of an effort to cut down on emissions.
An hour’s use of a gas-powered leaf blower produces the same amount of emissions as driving from Los Angeles to Denver, according to the Air Resources Board.
The bill’s author, Assemblyman Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, and supporters — including the American Lung Association in California, the Sierra Club and the Union of Concerned Scientists — say that it will result in the use of cleaner and greener equipment.
Berman’s bill comes as part of a state effort to cut down on air pollution. One hour of gas-powered leaf blower use is equivalent in emissions to a vehicle driving 1,100 miles from Los Angeles to Denver, according to the Air Resources Board.
Critics of the bill-turned-law — including Senate GOP Leader Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, and the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute — said that it will impose a hardship on landscapers and gardeners, as well as creating a market shortfall of products with high consumer demand.
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Liberal stupidity knows no bounds.
They also did a study of California EnvironMENTALLY unsafe Bovine flatulence which to their dismay turned out to be only a fraction of the flatulence expelled into the environment by illegal alien South and central American border jumpers on a Taco bending diet. Wait till they get into the country and find they can no longer eat beef in those California Taco’s let alone find toilet paper in the stores. The faster Newsom can turn California into a third world State, the sooner our illegal immigration problems will disappear because who wants to emigrate into a land of tent cities and strewn sidewalk human excrement that looks just as poor and socially unworkable as the Country you seek to leave? If One hour of gas-powered leaf blower use is equivalent in emissions to a vehicle driving 1,100 miles from Los Angeles to Denver, Just how much pollution is generated by 80,000 Haitians boating/flying to central America, and driving up to the US Border, not to mention the additional one million illegal aliens Joe let in who will be soon driving American cars, mostly only being able to buy old gas guzzling clunkers that should have been crushed years ago?
I wonder, what idiots thought up the idea that ONE hour use of a leaf blower, creates as much greenhouse emissions as driving from LA to Denver does?
FOR ONE a leaf blower uses about 1/3 to 1/4th a gal, for that operation in a 40CC motor that is one cylinder.. WHERE AS LA to denver, is 1,040 or so miles. EVEN THE BEST gas millage car, is getting what, 45 MPG, so that trek is using more than 20 gallons of gas. IN A Four, Six or even 8 cylinder engine..
SO how the hell, is that ‘putting the same emissions out as a single leaf blower being used for 60 minutes!?
Oh, sure, try to introduce facts into the discussion, typical conservatives tactic.
They are using Marxists math to determine the emissions.
Ahh.. You mean 2+2 = White supremacy!
Let’s see those HOA’s force homeowners to purchase electric mowers (California is famous for their glut of electric power) or better yet, wind powered.
Not to mention there is yet to be a technology invented to recycle the ground contaminating Lithium from modern automotive batteries as they do silver from the old ones today? Between the additional human waste generated by millions of additional illegal humans California has let into their state, and the leaky garbage dumped Lithium Car and lawn mower batterie,,s the California ground will soon reflect that of Washington D.C.,,,,,a foul swamp full of human parasites capable of only feeding off each other. Enter the Democrats.
Knowing how draconian they are out there, i can easily see those HOA’s forcing folks to do this.
So when the California power grid goes down, just how do those electric cars get charged? Wow , there will lots of room on the freeways then.
there are going to be emissions from any source that supplies the electric-most likely fossil fuel fired –
if solar or wind -they will need batteries-and when they are done with the batteries the ***** will dispose of them in the ocean or landfills
polluting far worse than the original pollution they are trying to stop-
How dare you bring logic into their feelings.
RHEEE!
Those who have seen the light have twenty-six months to go out and stock up on their gas-powered necessities, especially the generators so they charge their batteries when the grid fails (again and again). Those who are in the dark will remain there when the grid fails along with their dead batteries!
I wouldn’t be shocked to see them ban generators next.
Soon it will be costing $5.00+ per gallon to run. They won’t have to ban them.
californiastan the crown jewel of the soviet states.
The way things are headed in CA they won’t want to use gas powered mowers because they will need the grass to sustain their own nourishment by grazing.
Another law that will adversely affect those who are less well off and who will be unable to replace either personal equipment or that used for their small lawn care businesses. I recall a number of years ago having some old, not working very well, weed eaters that I listed on the local freecyle group. A local lawn service man got in touch immediately because he wanted to take them and try to get them to work again so he’d have extra equipment. If that didn’t work he’d use them for parts.
Now to me that means that those pieces of equipment weren’t going to end up in a landfill and he’d be able to keep his costs down and make additional profit. It was clear he was a very small company. I was glad to help him out.
I’m still trying to figure out why the green types don’t understand that unless they are hooking their batteries up to a solar panel or a windmill they are likely using (GASP) coal fired power in the form of electricity created at a coal fired plant. If they REALLY want to be ‘green’ they need to get a scythe.
BECAUSE logic like that, escapes them!