Re:Portland's gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect
by iamnothere on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:07PM
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Not to mention that these are often DIY mod jobs, so banning the sale of what? Generic car parts? Steel tubing? Welders?
The right thing to do is to ban their use on a local level pursuant to some specific criteria is one thing (as many municipalities do, and Portland took a step further by doing categorically city wide). To ban their sale (but not use, are you kidding?) state wide is a great example of not only crap law, but the exact sort of minutia that the state level government should not be regulating and is necessarily proceeded by the sort of evil "I know best, damn the exceptions" world view that underpins much of the bad policy that sours people on the same institutions you are trying to use to solve what you perceive to be problems.