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monongahellyea t1_je6z10m wrote

Reply to comment by penguinsfan40 in Arena demo, 2011 by NSlocal

Same. I miss being able to walk in any direction and hit an exit, instead of being herded like cattle up/down two gigantic escalators or a mystery stairwell that pops you out on street level, but never the street you need to be on.

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Excelius t1_je6yf8p wrote

Reply to comment by username-1787 in Yo! When’s your first grass cut gonna happen this year? by Pancake108

Transportation accounts for about 27% of greenhouse gas emissions.

Americans burn about 135 billion gallons of gasoline per year, and lawn equipment uses an estimated 800 million gallons. Hundreds of billions versus hundreds of millions, it's not even a close comparison.

Saying that electrification of lawn equipment is more important to combat climate change than vehicles is just flat out wrong.

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username-1787 t1_je6y02w wrote

Reply to comment by Excelius in Yo! When’s your first grass cut gonna happen this year? by Pancake108

CO and NOx emissions both also net contribute to global warming via catalytic effects and are also worse for human health than CO2. And this doesn't even mention the host of other greenhouse gases we emit every day (methane, HFCs, etc). Climate isn't just about CO2

However I do agree that trucks burn way more fuel and produce way more CO2, but the production of electric trucks is also far more ecologically destructive than production of consumer grade electric lawn and garden equipment which is why I'd posit they're still a climate win (although it's just a reasonably informed hunch and not backed by research or anything).

And again - EV transition still needs to happen, but the ROI on smaller, cheaper sources of pollution is probably higher in many cases

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Excelius t1_je6xh09 wrote

Reply to comment by Grundlage in Yo! When’s your first grass cut gonna happen this year? by Pancake108

> Gas-powered lawn and garden equipment is responsible for 24-45% of non-road carbon emissions

Correction: Your link says that gas-powered lawn and garden equipment is responsible for 24-45% of non-road gasoline emissions. Not non-road carbon emissions.

There are only so many things that use gasoline besides cars, and of those things lawn equipment is the largest consuming category.

> Operating a lawnmower for an hour produces the same amount of emissions as driving a typical car for 500 miles.

Health impacting pollutants like VOCs, yes. Climate change causing greenhouse emissions, not even close.

The average vehicle on American roads gets about 25mpg, so that 500 mile trip is burning about 20 gallons of gasoline.

I've always owned electric lawn equipment so I'm honestly not sure what's typical, but I'd guess that most people aren't burning 20 gallons in their lawn mower in an entire year.

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Small-Cherry2468 t1_je6x8zi wrote

Reply to New property value assessments mailed to Beaver County residents leaving some with sticker shock by LostEnroute

It's honestly long overdue and partly only occurred due to the complaints by a local developer, Chuck Betters. I still feel my reassessment is about $75K low due to improvements I have done and comps, but I am not complaining. I really feel bad for some of those in Allegheny County who were paying $50K worth of taxes on a $500K building before the reassessments. That has to suck.

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Excelius t1_je6w07r wrote

Reply to comment by username-1787 in Yo! When’s your first grass cut gonna happen this year? by Pancake108

> Electrifying lawn equipment should be priority #1 as opposed to electric cars

No. That's misunderstanding the problem.

The Edmunds article is talking about pollutants like carbon monoxide and NOx and so forth. They're high because gas lawn mowers don't have the emissions control systems that cars do. Some places do encourage people not to use gas lawn equipment on air-quality alert days.

Climate change is about CO2 emissions. Emissions control systems do basically nothing to reduce the amount of CO2 emitted, it's a straight function of how much gas has been burned. The only real way to reduce CO2 emissions is to burn less fuel, and cars and trucks burn way more fuel than lawn mowers.

That said I've literally never owned a gas mower, I've been using some form of electric mower for about 15 years now.

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fadedrosebud t1_je6vd7g wrote

Reply to comment by terracottalady in Homeless mother and child by terracottalady

I’ve tried several times to contact Bethlehem Haven asking if they accept donations of clothing. You can’t even leave a message. I know these places are understaffed but, geez, I’m talking calls over a span of 4-5 months. Somebody should have fixed it by now.

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[deleted] t1_je6v1dr wrote

Reply to Tattooers with Drawing/Design Consultations by Ruin-Much

Have you tried offering to pay for the additional consultations? You're asking for services beyond what most artists would typically offer, and I am betting that most want to nope out when they hear about the possibility of multiple rounds of revisions. I think your ask is totally reasonable as long as you're compensating them for the extra time.

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