[Bill Schwab]

Voodoo:

In order to fully appreciate the term "fruitcakes, and tree huggers", you got to get a shopt of what these moron legislators like Barbara Boxer propose with chemicals. And not only chemicals, dirt....If we spot a pile of dirt on a city street, it is a $10,000 fine. They claim now get this, the little microscopic crumbs that are left on the pavment after it is swept up go into the drains and kill fish in the ocean...LIKE THERE IS NO DIRT ON THE OCEAN FLOOR???????????????????????????????


They have lawn applicators wearing tyvel suites and full face masks with respirators on 90° days. They have bannned 3/4 of the chemicals that could be used to do a good job with little or no impact on the environment. And at the same time, they still allow chemicals that we as professionals cannot even get, for sale over the counter to any Tom Dick and Hairy who has no license and wants to apply them to thier lawn.

Look, I'm all for saving the environment IN AREAS WHERE THERE IS TRUELY AN IMPACT. I am not at all in favor of jumping through hoops when some liberal whacko legislator who cuddles up to his tree every night gets money from Green Peace to pass idiocy.

To this day, Chemlawn the largest lawn applications company in the world has not had a lost time incident as a result of chemicals and contact thier employees have had.

And as an asmatic, I have a vested interst in clean air. However, when we have whacked studies that are presented to the EPA to make false claims, I have a tad bit of an issue witht hat...Case in point, the small engines scare, specifically 2 stroke engines...

The EPA makes this claim that somehow gets into Readers Digest a few years back....It claimed that "small engines" created 1/10th of the worlds air pollution...There was this rush on buying push mowers. People were worried that by cutting thier lawn, they were destroying the ozone layer. Now think about this....The average family owns 2 cars. And, those cars run on average, an hour each per day. Thier engines are 10 times the size as a lawn mower or back pack blower....

Yet this claim of 1/10 the worlds air pollution comes into play.... Then one winter day I had nothing to do, so, I decided to research the criteria the morns at the EPA use to pass the scare tactic...It seems that they could not make thier case by using lawn and hand power equipment, so, they factored in all engines under 100 HP and this brought thier numbers up to the point they needed to make.

Now my Caterpillar D-3B dozer has a 93HP Engine...How many intelligent people would call this a SMALL engine?

And this list goes on and on and on.

I'm not trying to get into it with you or anyone over organic vs chemical or IPM's or full on chemical usage here. Just trying to shed light that the medias won't- don't seem to want to make people aware of. Of course if you injest lawn drugs, you best get yor tummy pumped. And if you ran your mower all day long with oil fouled exhaust, of course it might make an impact. But the cases the government makes are not accurate, basically left slanted lies that impact each and every one of us in a very adverse way.

The finacial success of the green industry would be far better served in making more sensible laws, more fair laws than this idiocy they feel is on our behalf.