
Almost missed this bit of news mentioned in last month's Westways magazine: the South Coast Air Quality Management District is sponsoring a program called "Mow Down Air Pollution", offering LA, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino county residents an opportunity to trade in their gasoline burning lawn mowers for a non-polluting battery powered model at a deep discount. How much are we talking? How about a Neuton CS 5.3 for $100? That's the very same electric mower Grace tested awhile ago at a very nice price; they're also offering the more powerful Neuton CE 6.3 and the Black & Decker CMM1200 both for $160 with your trade-in as an incentive to steer Southern Cali residents away from polluting our neighborhoods with traditional mowers...




I truly appreciate the advent of a quiet, electric-charged battery powered lawn mower (and would be interested in buying one for myself). But when the state of California typically has rolling blackouts every summer because electric usage exceeds what the power plants can produce, it seems counter-productive.
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No wonder California has a budget crisis.
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