leaf blowers, part 2

Seriously. I just drove past a yahoo who was very fastidiously blowing every last blade of mown grass out into the street, well away from her curb. And no, this wasn't the same yahoo I posted about earlier. She didn't even stop as I had to drive through her little green cloud. Jesus. And even though double extra large t-shirts do a lot to hide their contents, they don't do so much as to reveal that this was a person who could've benefited greatly from using a human-powered broom for awhile.

Check this page out for more like the following:

• There is no evidence of increase in the cost of lawn care when blowers are banned. (and think about the savings in fuel costs - essentially, lawncare companies could push that cost onto their workers, who would pay it in muscle effort)
• Dick Roberts, organizer of Project Quiet Yards in Greenwich, Connecticut, told House & Garden in 1996, "We did a test on a half acre of grass clippings and found a rake was only ten minutes slower than a blower." That extra time would equate to less than one minute for a typical-size yard in my neighborhood.
• Small gasoline engines create up to 20 percent of the air pollution in cities, particularly NOx and particulates