An example - California is banning the sale of combustion powered small garden appliances - lawnmowers, line trimmers, and so on. A lot of these are still powe

An example - California is banning the sale of combustion powered small garden appliances - lawnmowers, line trimmers, and so on. A lot of these are still powered by two-stroke engines, which are literally thousands of times more polluting than modern (ICE) cars, and even the four-stroke versions are much more polluting than larger vehicles with pollution control gear. Batteries are now powerful enough to be a satisfactory substitute for gas engines in these applications. Other jurisdictions should adopt the same rules. Another easy one is banning wood stoves and heaters in populated areas.