People who write laws are all too often clueless. Let us return to the fools errand of the NJ Law banning gas powered equipment. The law state:
“Gas-powered lawn equipment” means lawn equipment that has a two-stroke or four-stroke engine and uses gasoline or a gasoline and oil blend as fuel.
“Lawn equipment” means any mechanically powered equipment or device that is used for, or intended to be used for,
the mowing of grass,
the cutting or chipping of trees, tree roots, or tree branches, or
the clearing of leaves or other vegetation from lawns, sidewalks, public streets or public highways.
“Lawn equipment” shall include, but not be limited to,
lawn mowers and
lawn mower attachments,
lawn edgers,
leaf blowers,
leaf vacuums,
mulchers,
chippers,
pruners,
trimmers,
chainsaws,
power washers, and
snow blowers
Now there are several issues.
1. Where will the new equipment come from? Billions of dollars of new electric powered equipment must be made available at billions of dollars of new costs. No manufacturer has such a capacity!
2. Billions of dollars of gas equipment must be disposed of adding more billions of disposal costs.
3. Capital to achieve this is generally unavailable to the small lawn companies and home owners.
4. Take snow blowers for example. There are NO electric battery models to handle such a task. Does that mean we leave sick and elderly stranded. What of highway clearing.
5. There is no delimitation in Senator Bob Smith's bill. So generators used in a hurricane to save lives would also be banished.
In my opinion and in my experience this is not only a foolish bill but it clearly has the potential to cost many lives. What of the invalid needing power during a storm, a power outage etc! We let them die so as to meet the good Senator's religions mandates? One must just read the words. The Press just sees leaf blowers. I see what the words mean.
The questions just build up. This is a fools errand driven by the Boston Carpetbagger and his ilk.
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