‘Are leaf blowers bad for us?’

On the topic of leaf blowers, I situated myself by reading an article by James Fallows, a writer for The Atlantic who worked with neighbors on a successful effort to ban gas-powered leaf blowers in Washington, D.C. He offers a helpful explanation of the air pollution generated by the two-stroke engine found in many blowers: “It’s simpler, cheaper, and lighter than the four-stroke engines of most modern cars, and has a better power-to-weight ratio. But it is vastly dirtier and less fuel-efficient because by design it sloshes together a mixture of gasoline and oil in the combustion chamber and then spews out as much as one-third of that fuel as an unburned aerosol.” READ MORE HERE >