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This new proposal for gas powered equipment is another example of
how government is not paying attention to small business. For two
reasons. First a lawn service business will not be able to function
without gas powered vehicles unless the buy thousands and thousands
of dollars worth of batteries to operate this business.  Anyone
that has used an electric blower knows that it requires multiple
batteries just to do one house.  They use a lot of electric power.
Each battery is in excess of $100. So if a small company is doing
20 houses a day you will need $2,000 for each worker on the crew. 

But the second part of this is now you are creating toxic metal
contamination for when these batteries go bad in two years. Then
these batteries will need to be replaced again at another $2,000
per man.
Third is why doesn't our government think these things through? How
much of the electricity that is used in these "electric machines"
are using electricity made with fossil fueled powered electric
plants. Is this all smoke and mirrors to make it look good to the
public but not really making changes at all? You are still using
fossil fuels to make the electricity.