29 Jan 09 07:07, John Massey wrote to Bob Ackley:



 BA>> It ain't just cars.  In parts of California it is illegal to mow
 BA>> your lawn with a gasoline powered mower (those same municipalities
 BA>> will also climb all over you if you *don't* mow your lawn, and won't
 BA>> let you keep sheep on the property). It is also illegal in some
 BA>> parts of that state to barbecue on a grill in the back yard. And it
 BA>> is illegal in some parts of that state to burn your burnable trash
 BA>> in an incinerator that's made and sold for that purpose.  Dunno
 BA>> about wood stoves - I do know that in some parts of Colorado they've
 BA>> been outlawed (apparently too many people had them and were burning
 BA>> too much wood in addition to the smoke problem).

 JM> Except for cutting the grass, I would be a huge criminal if I lived
 JM> in CA.

I was. Before we moved out of San Diego into the back country, we lived in
a 'smog check' area and we registered the cars in the exempt part of the
back country part of the state. Our auto insurance went down also.

The part of the state he's talking about is the Los Angeles basin, where
all two stroke engines are banned as well as gasoline powered lawn mowers.

I doubt that anyone living in those areas would be an outlaw for very
long, as the mentallity of your neighbors would be to turn you in, since
they can't use a gas powered lawn mower either. What's good for the goose
must certainly be good for the gander.

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