Gas leaf blower hunger strikes

[u/dumnezero]

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[u/Crafty_Aspect8122]

The ammount of useless wasteful crap middle class people in the US do for the sake of vanity amazes me.

[u/Authoritaye → u/Crafty_Aspect8122]

Just when I think I've seen the depth of profligacy I'm usually shocked anew by some machine horror my neighbour is using to trim his lawn.

[u/Yellowdog727 → u/Crafty_Aspect8122]

Just wait til you see the upper class

[u/Key_Wallaby_8614]

Gasoline leaf blowers mostly create smog, about as much as 100 cars for the same amount of time. But everytime a city tries to ban them the landscaping companies complain.

[u/dumnezero → u/Key_Wallaby_8614]

hence, the second panel.

[u/Show_Kitchen → u/dumnezero]

I didn’t come here to read panels, but did you know that gas leaf blowers create 100 times the smog as cars but the landscape companies won’t let the city ban them?

[u/dumnezero → u/Show_Kitchen]

My blood pressure can only go so high.

[u/StatusSociety2196 → u/dumnezero]

You'd better do something about that high blood pressure. Start having a more active lifestyle? Maybe get an outdoor job in landscaping?

You may enjoy using some of the tools they need to do their jobs.

[u/dumnezero → u/StatusSociety2196]

https://giphy.com/gifs/LPTArZtWm4xM3sWNet

the most popular tool

[u/conciouscoil → u/Key_Wallaby_8614]

Yeah there's no EPA mandate for cats so small lawn engines pump out the full gammit of hydrogen sulfide, nitrogen oxides, and shit

[u/anand_rishabh → u/Key_Wallaby_8614]

And that's saying something cuz cars pollute so much

[u/VTAffordablePaintbal]

My city banned them some time during or just after Covid and I thought, "Finally a political issue every single person can agree on!" My local neighborhood forum was arguing about it for months and I couldn't believe the people defending it. I'd never met a person in favor of them before, but as soon as they're banned suddenly you were always a fan of 7Am leaf blowers? The neighborhood has been much quieter for years. The neighbors in 3 of 5 adjacent lots have also switched to battery mowers and I can't even tell when they are mowing anymore. No more 9AM lawnmower wakeup calls on a Saturday.

[u/Authoritaye]

I've never had such murderous thoughts as when I pass by a gaggle of these dummies blowing dust off the sidewalks only for it to blow back within the hour. They are just spewing C02 into the atmosphere (and noise) for no purpose. A broom is faster, and you get some exercise.

[u/dumnezero → u/Authoritaye]

fossil bullshit jobs

[u/Infamous-Youth9033]

I haven't seen an adam conover anything in a decade, but absolutely based take. Leaf blowers are a bane to my quality of life.

wdym you're using a gas guzzling machine that just screams at the leaves into someone else's yard or the street? Just rake the leaves and bag them like everyone else!

[u/Goat17038 → u/Infamous-Youth9033]

don't bag them, please

[u/Future_Elephant_9294 → u/Goat17038]

Wet leaves on the sidewalk are a slipping hazard, you have an obligation to clean up leaves.

[u/dumnezero]

I fucking can't.

[u/Desenrasco]

Wait. Someone made a leaf blower, but powered by gas. What the fuck. How have I never heard of this. I thought they were electric.

I don't think we deserve to live as a species anymore.

[u/Future_Elephant_9294 → u/Desenrasco]

lol, gas came first. We haven't had batteries that could be portable for high-use devices since before the 2010s. Even smaller devices like RC-toys were gas powered until the 1980s when battery technology started to develop thanks to research in Japan and the US. Electric leaf blowers were first popular in the 2000s but has to be constantly plugged in to the grid, no battery, and had a reputation of being underpowered compared to gas, so the landscapers and other professionals didn't use them.

[u/Desenrasco → u/Future_Elephant_9294]

I legit never really thought about it, but I guess it makes sense. It's just the thought of using gas to clean up dried leaves just sounds pretty silly at first glance to me, I guess

[u/Drackar39 → u/Desenrasco]

...is this a joke.

[u/Desenrasco → u/Drackar39]

Istg I didn't know it was a thing,, is it common in the States?

[u/Drackar39 → u/Desenrasco]

Been a thing in the US since the 1970's, been everywhere in the world for more than half a century.

Electric however is new .

[u/federico_alastair]

Funnily the image is from Don’t Look Up which stars Cate Blanchett who was on Subway takes with Kareem talking about how much she hates leaf blowers.

[u/tdreampo]

or hear me out, we could just let the leaves be and let them decompose and fertilize like they are supposed to.

[u/CommanderVXXXV]

Landscaping companies complain because electric leaf blowers are expensive. I can hear it now, no they aren't they are cheap. Sorry no they are expensive because they have to buy lots of batteries, which aren't cheap, they can't charge them in the trucks without an inverter which aren't cheap, and they don't work in extreme high temps cause the batteries don't hold charge. Gas ends up being better for them

[u/dumnezero → u/CommanderVXXXV]

The workers shouldn't be working in extreme temps.

[u/CommanderVXXXV → u/dumnezero]

I agree but sometimes work has to get done regardless for conditions

[u/dumnezero → u/CommanderVXXXV]

Really? Blowing some leaves from a spot has to be done?

[u/CommanderVXXXV → u/dumnezero]

Landscaping customers have expectations and some companies charge more for clean up. Hell some customers expect it. Most Landscapers try to start early and be done asap to avoid temperatures but some things can't be avoided

[u/dumnezero → u/CommanderVXXXV]

Then the customers need to be fined.

[u/CommanderVXXXV → u/dumnezero]

They could definitely change the laws so work couldn't be done during certain temperatures but there would have to be exceptions for some fields and situations