People plant trees and bushes, but people also drive cars and SUVs, run their tivos and their air conditioners. The carbon footprints are not the same at all. Plus there's the fact that your lawnmower and snowblowers have almost no environmental controls.** According to the California Air Resources Board, a 2006 lawnmower engine produced 93 times more smog-forming emissions than a 2006 automobile. The EPA has stated that "one old gas powered lawn mower running for an hour emits as much pollution as driving 650 miles in a 1992 model automobile."
**Catalytic converters are now being required by California on new lawnmower engines under 50 horsepower. http://www.mindfully.org/Air/Lawn-Mower-Pollution.htm
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Plus there's the fact that your lawnmower and snowblowers have almost no environmental controls.** According to the California Air Resources Board, a 2006 lawnmower engine produced 93 times more smog-forming emissions than a 2006 automobile. The EPA has stated that "one old gas powered lawn mower running for an hour emits as much pollution as driving 650 miles in a 1992 model automobile."
**Catalytic converters are now being required by California on new lawnmower engines under 50 horsepower.
http://www.mindfully.org/Air/Lawn-Mower-Pollution.htm