While the intentions behind this could be noble, these sort of heavy handed moves are anti-minority and hurt some of the poorest people. Lawn and Gardening job

While the intentions behind this could be noble, these sort of heavy handed moves are anti-minority and hurt some of the poorest people. Lawn and Gardening jobs are mostly done by immigrants and other minorities in and around Oakland. For these cash strapped individuals it is going to be a major burden to replace all their equipment with battery operated devices, not to mention, it is going to be a problem to charge the batteries as these people often work around the clock and can't afford to keep the equipment idle. Some of these people will go out of business, or will have to seek loans from loan sharks or pay expensive fines to the city. Not sure Oakland can even make a dent it CO pollution in the world with this law but surely will destroy few more lives of city's minorities and vulnerable people.