Leaf blowers are the last frontier of regulatory internal combustion engine efficiency. Your car is required by law to travel 100 miles on a drop of 10% ethanol

Leaf blowers are the last frontier of regulatory internal combustion engine efficiency. Your car is required by law to travel 100 miles on a drop of 10% ethanol fuel with minimal smog release. Your leaf blower can be powered by funeral home soot for all the EPA cares, and you can run it full blast right outside little Timmy’s window all afternoon. This was a win for both noise and air pollution, which we should be clear kills many more people per year than the costs borne by landscapers to upgrade to electric machines.