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Phisherman wrote:
Anyone comment on gas-powered blowers? I'm thinking
about getting
one
for leaf pickup, and more importantly, to clean driveways
and
streets
from grass clippings.

Of course you _should_ be mixing your leaves and grass clippings
and putting them in a compost pile, or at least using them as a
nice, heavy mulch under those trees.

Gas-powered blowers add to air pollution, create noise pollution,
move debris from your yard to someone else's, and increase our
trade deficit in a couple of ways -- by making us buy more
foreign oil, and by buying equipment which was at least in part
manufactured out of the country.

Raking leaves is excellent aerobic exercise and by doing so you
need to spend fewer non-productive hours in the health club on
exercise machines.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - VEGETARIAN:
An Indian word meaning "lousy hunter."