Washington Examiner – by Asher Nothies
California took another step toward its goal of ridding the state of all gas-powered engines thanks to a new bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday.
The new law will ban the sale of all off-road, gas-powered engines, including generators, lawn equipment, pressure washers, chainsaws, weed trimmers, and even golf carts. Under the new law , these machines must be zero-emissions, meaning they will have to be either battery-powered or plug-in, according to the Los Angeles Times .
“This is a pretty modest approach to trying to limit the massive amounts of pollution that this equipment emits, not to mention the health impact on the workers who are using it constantly,” Marc Berman, the bill’s author, told the outlet. “It’s amazing how people react when they learn how much this equipment pollutes, and how much smog forming and climate changing emissions that small off-road engine equipment creates.”
The new law is expected to affect nearly 50,000 small businesses . California’s budget includes $30 million to help professional landscapers and gardeners quit using gas-powered equipment, but even then, the budget is still not capable of bearing the full financial burden.
The National Association of Landscape Professionals also noted how zero-emission commercial equipment is both more expensive and less efficient than gas-powered equipment. A gas-powered riding lawn mower costs between $7,000-$11,000 while the zero-emissions version costs more than twice that amount, according to the outlet.
The new rule will be implemented by January 2024, or as soon as regulators determine is “feasible,” whichever date is later. The California Air Resources Board has already started working on executing the law, which is a lengthy process scheduled to conclude early next year, per the outlet.
Newsom banning futures purchases of gas-powered lawn equipment continues his pursuit of making California run exclusively on green energy. The governor signed an executive order in September 2020 mandating that all of California’s new car sales be zero-emissions models by 2035. The order also requires new bus and truck sales, whenever feasible, to be zero-emissions vehicles by 2045.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/california-law-to-ban-small-off-road-engines
OH well!! Not going to ever live there… GOV.COM Sh*thole!!! Once the American dream, swimming pools, Movie stars. DISNEYLAND!!!! HOWS VEGAS DOIN??? SH*THOLE!!!! Please stay and lay in the bed you made!! THX in advance… CALIFUKINGFORNIA
Sorry. JUst dont run me off the road on your way north to pay huge dollars to get the fuk out of the shthole you helped create!!! FU
ROLMFAO!!! Wow! If this was 5 years ago, it would literally be satire on “The Onion” or something. This is both hilarious and ridiculous.
Illegal immigrant Mexican landscapers won’t like this at all. If they don’t have gas for their lawn mowers, leaf blowers and hedge trimmers, then how the hell will THEY even stay in business?
Battery powered equipment only last 20-30 minutes until you have to recharge again. They better have a shitload of batteries charged before going to work or they’ll be having a lot more siestas during the day in which case their customer base will be trimmed as well as their stretched income. If he starts banning some cleaning agents, then watch the illegal immigrant maids go out of business, too.
So much for even the illegal immigrants seeking “a better life” working here in Amerika.
Meanwhile the power for the chargers comes from mostly coal.
People are actually going to comply with this shit ?
So tired of being the only Rebel with a cause
So this is the psychopath that wants to “save the environment” by cutting “carbon emitions” for a “green new deal,” and so he’s banning chainsaws that help mitigate wildfires when users cut off dead tree limbs and members of Firewise Communities use them and weed whackers to also help mitigate fires around their homes and properties….
No wonder I call him Gavin GRUSOME! And so will the flora and fauna in Commie-fornia!
who is going to enforce this
How many know that denatured alcohol has been banned in cally since 2019?
Really!?
(LAUGHING)
And to think of all the folks who couldn’t wait until 2020 was over.
Goofy just doesn’t define today’s sh!t any longer.
Newsom is an elitist prick and is welcome to pound sand up his @ss.