[Summit] leaf blowers & idling cars: E. Side quality of life issues

[Jeffrey Cavanaugh]

I have a wind powered leaf-blower.  It's called, wait for it, wind.

:)

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Greg Gerritt <gerritt at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> To stop clikamte change we are going to have to go to zero fossil fuel
> usage and restore forests.  RI needs to get out ahead of this curve.  Maybe
> we start by banning leaf blowing and then move on to reducing the number of
> cars by 10% a year while shifting the rest to electric run  on solar or
> wind.   greg
>
> From: Paul Wilde <zenyente at gmail.com>
> Date: Friday, October 17, 2014 at 1:28 PM
> To: Summit Neighborhood <Summit at sna.providence.ri.us>
> Subject: [Summit] leaf blowers & idling cars: E. Side quality of life
> issues
>
> So the question is, do we have any support to introduce legislation to ban
> leaf blowers in Prov?
>
> Similarly, from a clean air pt of view, does anyone find it reasonable to
> petition the Hope St merchants to encourage a ban (or strongly worded
> request) on cars idling in parking lots?  According to Click & Clack,
> anything beyond 30 sec of idling and you have lost any gain you may have
> saved from fuel used by turning the car off & on again, or are people too
> unconcerned to be bothered by this form of noise and air pollution?  Not to
> mention walking the gauntlet to your car, which we hope, is turned off.  As
> one friend put it, you are getting 0 mpg while idling.
>
> Paul
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