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They came for your car.
Then it was meat.
And then your leaf blower.
Then they came for your gas stove.
And now...they want your lawnmower:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/04...DENVER ' Your lawn may be the next climate change battleground. And parks. And playgrounds.
Regulators and clean-air advocates are increasingly eyeing the pollution emitted by small gasoline engines used to power lawn mowers and leaf blowers as they seek to blunt climate change. Environmentalists say using a commercial gas leaf blower for an hour produces emissions equal to driving from Denver to Los Angeles.Which is actually a testimonial to how good ICE cars are these days, not that the idiot writing this article would be able to grok that.
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Dope1:
They came for your car.
Then it was meat.
And then your leaf blower.
Then they came for your gas stove.
And now...they want your lawnmower.You left out incandescent light bulbs. Is that because republican GW Bush came for those?
Anyway, no shortage of ICE cars anywhere in the country.
Where we live, our grocery stores have hundreds of pounds of beef of every variety available.
Home Depot has 43 models of gas leaf blowers you can order online:
https://www.homedepot.com/b/Outdoors-Outdoor-Power...Abt has 371 models of gas ranges to sell you:
https://www.abt.com/Gas-Ranges/c/405.htmlRepublicans are a whiny bunch.
Dope1:
Which is actually a testimonial to how good ICE cars are these days...You mean because of CAFE standards, regulations folks here were whining about just a few days ago?
Times change. I replaced my smelly, loud gas-powered lawn mower (which required trips to the gas station and expensive tune ups every couple of years) with an electric model more than a decade ago. All the electric models need are a new (or sharpened) blade every couple of years and a good cleaning a few times during the summer months.
Huh.
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You left out incandescent light bulbs. Is that because republican GW Bush came for those?
So? Was dumb to ban them before LED's were ready. Now there's lots of mercury in landfills.
What's your point?
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They actually resent the concept of homeowners and lawns.
Eventually, as WE give them full dominion over corporations, money, education and everything else.....they want to force everyone into urban developments and housing projects.
The whole concept of an American family having a nice big yard, having a few kids, BBQ'ing steaks - that scene right there annoys them. If there's a wedded Dad and Mom? Totally CounterCulture now.
EVs indeed will one day be normal.
But for now, Liberals want Biden in a leisure suit and cup of coffee, giving out $7500 to upper income white Liberals so they can buy an EV.
The Party of the Rich, White, and Conceited...... Liberalism in America.
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The whole concept of an American family having a nice big yard, having a few kids, BBQ'ing steaks - that scene right there annoys them. If there's a wedded Dad and Mom? Totally CounterCulture now.
Yup.
They want you to live in government-mandated housing units where the thermostat gets controlled by the utility company. That way when there's the inevitable brownout due to the windmils not working they can turn down/off your power.
Then there's your food. libs love the idea of the proles eating bugs for some reason.
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<<The Party of the Rich, White, and Conceited...>>
Yes, yes and yes...
The party of the rich? Check:
"I'm like, really rich." ~Trump
The party of the conceited? Check:
"Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure, it's not your fault!" ~Trump
The party of Whiteness? Check:
"This virus, I call it the kung flu." ~Trump
"Proud boys: Stand back and stand by." ~Trump
"Go back to the crime infested places from which they came." ~Trump
"Elizabeth Warren, that's pocahontas!" ~Trump
"Black Americans are the only racial group in this country with average credit scores of under 680." ~Tucker Carlson
Trumps base is always angry, upset and misinformed. (just read this board)
And he knows just how to play them with his white victimhood card set.
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"Trump!"
He's one man.
Liberals - the party of the Rich, White, and Conceited - who want to keep others down.
They did it to CERTAIN people over the last 50 years via their breaking of the family and culture.
Now, they want everybody else.
Sorry, Trump isn't end all be all....
He is a symptom of Liberal conceit.
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Times change. I replaced my smelly, loud gas-powered lawn mower (which required trips to the gas station and expensive tune ups every couple of years) with an electric model more than a decade ago. All the electric models need are a new (or sharpened) blade every couple of years and a good cleaning a few times during the summer months.As I type this at 07:26 a.m. I'm watching our contractor and his guys getting set up for the day. First thing they do is plug in their compressor and banks of chargers for their power tool batteries. Saws, grinders, jackhammer, all powered by our solar panels.
Since 2021 my monthly bill from Pacific Gas & Electric: $00.00 PGE ought to pay me for the excess solar panel production that they sell on the open market, but I'm still stoked to pay zero to cook, heat our water, charge our E-bikes...and power all my contractors equipment. Soon they'll finish the new garage and I'll have a charger for the wife's EV.
Our tiny town (pop 10k) just got its first public charging station in the parking lot of the only supermarket in town. 20 chargers on the row closest to the street.
"a 22-acre, 600-megawatt battery energy storage system that would provide a power supply to 450,000 homes" And...soon San Luis Obispo will be the site of world's largest BESS, current coming from the new floating turbine field sited 30 miles offshore.
https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activi...It's kinda humorous that the right-wing outrage machine has got its rage-platoons screaming "save the whales" "save the birds" as they 'roll coal' in their vanity duallies.
