Insanity!!!
Imagine owning a lawn service.
New smuggling items, chainsaws and lawnmowers.
Are they going to close the state border to prevent such contraband from coming in?
Exemptions for the rich and their El Salvadoran lawn crews?
San Francisco’s Berman thinks it is a “modest proposal”.
Man, I’d hate to see his idea of a serious proposal.
How are the lawns for the mega mansions and golf courses going to keep their lawns cut and follow the mandates? Like everything else imposed on the masses, they will have special rules for the elite.
More laws against Americans while illegals and other criminals can do as they please.
You simply can’t operate a landscaping service with these restrictions. I have several friends who own them.
Mowers, trimmers, blowers often run for 3-4 hours straight and travel all over a neighborhood/church grounds/fairgrounds for miles. They’d need to be recharged several times a day. Where do they do that? And while they’re charging back up, what do the workers do? Also, batteries aren’t as powerful as gas.
There’s NO upside to this.
More reasons to leave California.
Presumably existing equipment will be grandfathered in. So in summer of 2024 how is a Karen supposed to know if her neighbor's weed-trimmer is a year or so old or just smuggled in?
Banning the sale in CA... What about barter? Better yet, what if the owner of a lawn service drives over to Phoenix and buys equipment and comes back?
Does this mean that shipping containers full of equipment imported from China etc. can no longer be shipped through CA? After all, that is technically a "sale" right? At what point does the buyer take possession? On the docks, at a wharehouse? When/where is the "sale" and would such transactions now be illegal?
All fossil fueled "off road" vehicles? Ok, weed trimmers, lawn mowers, power washers, generators, air compressors, saws, rescue equipment, lawn tractors, motorcycles, ATVs, go-karts, RC planes... Boats? Outboards? Backhoes? Bulldozers? Just how broad and ill-conceived is this law?
Electric powered chainsaws? There goes the ability to fight forest fires effectively. Sheer insanity!
there is no such thing as “zero emissions” somewhere, something is emitting emissions to make these things work.
including generators,
I wonder if this also means the portable gas driven LINCOLN welding machines so necessary to remote welding. It also has outlets for smaller electrical driven equipment.
Going to be hard to clear out all of the fire fuel/dead growth in California forest without chainsaws, etc.
Oh, that’s right. They don’t do that...because Mother Gaia or something.
I suppose Forest Fire fighters will now need hand saws.
Looks like a good business opportunity for sale of portable equipment, just across the border, in Yuma, Arizona.
“”” including generators, lawn equipment, pressure washers, chainsaws, weed trimmers, and even golf carts.”””
CHAINSAWS????
How are the loggers going to log without chainsaws???
But, then this is California where they would rather burn down their forests than harvest them. It warms the hearts of Californians to virtue signal.
Generators? So when there’s rolling blackouts will candles suffice or will they deem them “racist”?