greenrightnow.com » leaf blowers http://www.greenrightnow.com/kabc Getting Green in the 'Hood Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:53:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Leaf blowers: just blow them off http://www.greenrightnow.com/kabc/2008/10/09/leaf-blowers-just-blow-them-off/ http://www.greenrightnow.com/kabc/2008/10/09/leaf-blowers-just-blow-them-off/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:22:26 +0000 BKessler http://www.greenrightnow.com/kvue/?p=1736 Aahhhh. Another beautiful fall day. Another leaf blower. BZZZZZZZZ!

Solution? Rake.

Suggested New Thought Bubble: Wait a minute, what am I doing with this silly, ineffectual, dirty-emissions gadget? I’m an American, I should be conserving gasoline*, not squandering it. We’re at war in the Middle East! What was I thinking? My parents would have known better during WWII.

(* or electricity for plug-in leaf blower owners.)

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Aahhhh. Another beautiful fall day. Another leaf blower. BBZZZZZZZZ!!!!

Solution? Rake.

Suggested New Thought Bubble: Wait a minute, what am I doing with this silly, ineffectual, dirty-emissions gadget? I’m an American, I should be conserving gasoline*, not squandering it. We’re at war in the Middle East! What was I thinking? My parents would have known better during WWII.

(* or electricity for plug-in leaf blower owners.)

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