Just read this article from 2019 about gentrification! People fighting “gentrification” hold economic growth and “this evil” is not that “evil” at all.
^I really wish the U.S. didn't have such bad Stockholm Syndrome with the automakers. We've already subsidized their takeover with highways and parking requirements. And now we allow them to sell mechanisms of pure noise pollution right off the lot--in addition to the obvious problem of air pollution. These exhausts don't add any horsepower; they're literally just designed to be obnoxious.
It used to require actual effort to make your car loud by installing aftermarket parts. It was for select enthusiasts. Now the laziest moron with a non-disastrous FICO score can walk into a dealer and finance a muscle car or monster truck with dangerous performance + deafening exhaust, and freely go terrorize the population at 86 decibels (Track Mode).
Mustang Active exhaust
Active valve exhaust systems allow drivers to vary the loudness of their exhaust systems to suit their needs. Ford's active exhaust system is now available as an option on all 2019 Mustangs, including the EcoBoost. The Mustang's active valve exhaust has four settings: Quiet, Normal, Sport, and Track.
^Here, here... And at the risk of sounding like the old man yelling at clouds, it seems daily for years now I'll be in the vicinity of an excessively loud motorcycle or non-commercial truck and it will be borderline painful to my ears and I find myself wondering to myself "how is that legal???"
^Here, here... And at the risk of sounding like the old man yelling at clouds, it seems daily for years now I'll be in the vicinity of an excessively loud motorcycle or non-commercial truck and it will be borderline painful to my ears and I find myself wondering to myself "how is that legal???"
^Oh, absolutely. Yes. This too. (Especially tonight when the be-blasted races were squealing through constantly whenever the county police helicopter wasn't hovering over my house.) But I still like the gas mower ban.
^ My brother-in-law recently got an electric mower (he lives in U City) and loves it. Not sure why more people wouldn’t go for it. Cheaper and cleaner (and probably safer) than transporting cans of gas between a station and your home.
^I have an electric mower. And an electric trimmer and leaf blower. Not even the battery sort. The old-fashioned kind that plug into the wall. I've gotten pretty darn comfortable wrangling cables about, but after a quarter century in theatre I was pretty comfortable with cables anyway.
The latest gen of battery power is pretty good. I have a trimmer and chainsaw that share the same battery and it's very nice to not have to worry about fuel, cords, etc.
I'm never buying another gas engine anything again, I don't think. Just got an Ego string trimmer that works great, will probably get a matching mower next year. If you can afford the up-front investment, battery power is pretty good now.
Unless you've got a ton of property the electric/battery stuff is perfectly fine however I wouldn't throw away a gas powered machine if it was in working order.
