These days I simply don't grow it covering the ground with weed cloth.

Per the article: “California will soon ban the sale of new gas-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers.”

@Apunzelle There should at least be federal emission standards for all lawn equipment nationwide

@barjoe Couldn’t agree more!

Ban grass!

Indeed! The article refers to a study done some four years or more ago that compared gas powered leaf blowers with your basic Toyota Camry. You’d have to drive the Camry 1,100 miles to make as much pollution as one hour of operation of the leaf blower.

@p-nullifidian but only about the equivalent of 2 minutes in one of your filthy military vehicles.

@FrayedBear You mean those filthy Russian military vehicles or those filthy Australian military vehicles?

@barjoe The Australian ones all came from USA. So unless they are what you import from China . . .

@FrayedBear Thankfully, the filthy military vehicles are few in number, comparatively speaking. Diesel big rigs, busses and locomotive engines are a major contributor to air pollution.

@p-nullifidian what about all those tanks, transporters, hummvees, B52 bombers etc.?

@FrayedBear They serve a very important purpose.

@FrayedBear There are quite a few of them indeed, it’s just that they’re not often sortied, and their numbers pale in comparison to the commercial economy. Civilian airliners conduct roughly 36,500,000 a year (100,000 flights every day), and account for the lion’s share of aircraft air pollution.

@barjoe boosting your damaged egos? Allowing you to be world bullies?

@FrayedBear "filthy military vehicles"

It is hard not to notice that you seem to 'delight' in bashing the US . . .

. . . which country can be documented as having a preponderance of energy efficient vehicles ?

@FrayedBear How about those filthy Russians that you admire so much?

@barjoe lol, they run on vodka don't they?

@barjoe And leaky radioactive cells don't they? Thats why many more men in Europe are prematurely bald!

@FearlessFly I suspect none.

@FearlessFly and in regard to "It is hard not to notice that you seem to 'delight' in bashing the US . . ." may be because I've had 70+ years of the wasteful pollution created your countrymen's internal combustion engines to say nothing of the monumental lies told to enhance or maintain your country's assets.

@FearlessFly, @barjoe have you watched White Tiger?

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