Washington state Democrat bill would jail
people for using new gas leaf blowers
Fox Business,
by
Chris Pandolfo
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
12/13/2023 2:51:01 PM
Washington state Democrats are proposing to outlaw new gas-powered lawn equipment, like leaf blowers, with legislation that could land violators in jail. A bill pre-filed by state Rep. Amy Walen, D-Kirkland, would amend the state's Clean Air Act to ban new "gasoline-powered and diesel-powered landscaping and other outdoor power equipment." The bill states that gas-powered lawn equipment contributes to climate change and claims such tools cause a range of health problems, including asthma, hearing loss and other issues, KTTH's Jason Rantz reported. Under the proposed law, the Washington state Department of Ecology would have a Jan. 1, 2026, deadline to
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
jalo1951 12/13/2023 3:11:31 PM (No. 1616609)
Please! Somebody make these people stop!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 12/13/2023 3:47:09 PM (No. 1616617)
Probably the lawmakers were annoyed by the noise illegal immigrant workers make while moving leaves from one pile to another on their neighbor’s lawn. They should just do it with a rake, like Grandpa and the plantation owners did. The State of Washington is nearly as pathetic as the District of Columbia.
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It’s liberal overreach for sure but I can’t stand these things. My lazy neighbors hire these immigrant run and staffed yard care services and these guys run these 95 decibel commercial leaf blowers constantly. There is no such thing as a peaceful summer afternoon or Saturday morning in America any more thanks to these things. Ban em all.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/13/2023 4:07:44 PM (No. 1616628)
The premise of this bill is bogus and unsubstantiated . Isn't there some sort of punishment for such looney thinking?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Sully 12/13/2023 4:09:03 PM (No. 1616631)
Confession: I hate em. Not just leaf blowers but landscapers in general. Everything they do sounds like the Guns of Navarone. They double park in front of your house and make you squeeze outa your own drive way. It's all bad.
I's sorry. I know it's unAmerican. I can't help it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Vesicant 12/13/2023 4:28:15 PM (No. 1616640)
"Diesel-powered landscaping and other outdoor power equipment" could include industrial earthmoving and construction equipment like bulldozers and excavators unless it's specifically excluded. Washington demonrats could be about to kill all new construction of any kind. I wouldn't put it past them, but per Hanlon's Razor, never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Bogasso 12/13/2023 4:36:20 PM (No. 1616648)
I wonder if they’d arrest a homeless person or an illegal immigrant for using a gas powered implement to annoy tourists.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
nerdowell 12/13/2023 4:37:00 PM (No. 1616649)
I could get behind this-- old ones as well. And electric ones. Those things do no earthly good that I can see.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chumley 12/13/2023 4:37:39 PM (No. 1616650)
These communists know no limits. Dont like what I'm doing in my yard? Tough cookies. Its my yard.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 12/13/2023 5:21:18 PM (No. 1616666)
Jail time and a fine for using a leaf blower, but if a street druggie in Seattle bashed someone on the head with a leaf blower, he'd be back on the street before you could say, "fentanyl".
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Geoman 12/13/2023 6:06:54 PM (No. 1616685)
The only way the climate change control freaks, a group of timid wanna-be communists, implement their destructive, civilization-destroying policies, eliminating all hydrocarbon-based fuels, should only be after their believers and followers win a bloody civil war against the normal people of what is left of the free world. Besides, even the dementia-ridden Biden should still realize how stupid it is to shut down all carbon-based energy sources within the U.S. while China is building new coal-fired plants at near light speed. Does Biden believe that the air above China is restricted to remain only over China? The very notion of "settled science" with regard to man's impact on the various Earth climates is the antithesis of science, which is characterized by adherence to the scientific method, which is always challenging assumptions, particularly those born of "conventional wisdom,"which is the hallmark of the climate controllers. Politicians within the US and abroad, now claim the mantle of arbiters of science, settled and otherwise. The same politicians who cannot tell a male from a female expect to be trusted in their head-long quest to eliminate the very backbone of modern civilization by causing normal people to sit and watch as families starve and economic systems crash as a direct result of their non-scientific policies destroying the modern world, leveling all countries and cultures to third-world status. Normal people will not go quietly into the dark ages, but the climate control freaks are betting their lives that their inner totalitarian tendencies will frighten the non-believers into quiet submission. I think a bloody, all-out war, with clear cut winners and losers, is actually preferable to voluntarily marching into ovens in the name of sustainability, on the ignorant words of Al Gore, John Kerry, and Joe Biden.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Newtsche 12/13/2023 6:26:03 PM (No. 1616699)
I have a backpack blower. Leaves on my long driveway must be removed. If they get covered in ice or snow, plates are formed, very difficult to remove. Getting the frozen stuff up is a big deal on the slope I deal with.
I mulch the yard leaves, big yard, loud commercial mower. Bob's you uncle.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Gordon Freeman 12/13/2023 7:19:26 PM (No. 1616713)
Why stop there, drumhead trials and summary executions? That’s what they want to be able to do.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
padiva 12/13/2023 8:07:33 PM (No. 1616724)
But noisy electric leaf blowers are permitted, right?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/13/2023 9:24:42 PM (No. 1616752)
I could do without the chainsaw-level noise but those tools contribute nothing to climate change. This is one area where the wind actually works better for removing leaves.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 12/13/2023 9:30:29 PM (No. 1616755)
Now you know why they wanted millions of illegals... to rake the leaves.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/13/2023 10:06:52 PM (No. 1616775)
I recommend Democrats cut their grass with Scissors. Have a very SLLLLOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW DAY!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
cactus 12/14/2023 12:31:56 AM (No. 1616803)
Are they coming for the chainsaws too? Cutting trees down with a handsaw will be very time-consuming and expensive!
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Up to $10,000 fine and 364 days behind bars - for using a leaf blower. Dems are tyrants.