Almost every day there’s another news item like this: a city deciding that, for environmental and public-health reasons, it’s time to phase out obsolete gas-powered blowers.

Today’s item is from Oak Bay, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. An article by Travis Paterson in the Oak Bay News is headlined, “Interest swirls in Oak Bay to ban gas-powered leaf blowers.“ Sample from the story:

Count Oak Bay Councillor. Tara Ney as the latest politician in the region interested in banning gas-powered leaf blowers….
What Ney is proposing is to have Oak Bay’s newly created climate action working group consider a ban for their report….Specifically, it’s the obsolete two-stroke engines that need to go, Ney said.
“People value Oak Bay as a clean and quiet community. If we can phase out the two-stroke, I hope we can then move to reducing leaf blowers. This is autumn and when I was a kid you heard the whoosh and scrape of rakes. Now you hear a whir.”

See more at the Oak Bay News site. Good luck to our friends in B.C.