Do you know anyone who likes the sound of leaf blowers? In our neighborhood, their whine can be heard 7 AM to 4 PM six days a week from March to December. Why live in a nice place if your reward is this infernal din?

These blowers are air pollutants nationwide as well, emitting as much CO 2 and more partially burnt gasoline than 135,000 cars. The entire State of California has banned them, and more than a dozen cities and towns in Massachusetts have as well.

Battery-powered blowers are just as powerful, lighter to carry, similar in price and way, way less noisy.

What if the town said “no more gas leaf blowers after 1/1⁄28?” Wouldn’t that give the commercial guys time to wear out their current ones and replace them with environmentally friendly and mercifully quiet battery-powered mach

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