@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars I wonder why they included gas stations unless it’s for their use as convenience store. Buying gas as a pedestrian is a very marginal use case…
I don’t think lawn mowers, snow blowers, and other ICE landscaping tools, are “very marginal use cases”. Sure they might not use a lot of gas, but most everyone with a lawn/driveway has them (at least mower and blower).
But also, yes, it’s a convenience store. Other than maybe in cities, we often don’t have any convenience stores at all, just gas stations with shops inside.
I’m in my 20s and only once have I ever used a lawn mower that required fuel, and it was pretty old. Unless you’re living on a huge tract of land and need a ride-on one, an electric one with a long cord will do the job 99% of the time.
I’ve never seen a snow blower but I can only imagine it being useful to people living in areas that get a crazy amount of snowfall, otherwise it’s overkill.
Besides a lawn mower, there’s not really any large powered landscaping tools I can think of that the average person would ever need to outright buy and own.
lawl, nobody here has electric mowers. You can’t even find them in retail stores most of the time. I’m not saying that’s a good thing, but just because you haven’t personally used one by your 20s doesn’t mean they aren’t damn near mandatory elsewhere.
I have one I bought online and it struggles to get through my tiny yard. It uses batteries, but same basic concept. The grass is just too dense in the area for them to be practical, unless you want to go over the whole thing twice every week. Some people do, and good for them, but the vast majority simply won’t.
And sure maybe a snowblower in the south is overkill, but around here (and frankly in a ton of areas) if you don’t have one people -feel sorry for you and offer to help- because we do get a lot in a typical year. But also useful for old people, those with physical problems, etc. shoveling snow is hard work, unless the most you ever get is a dusting.
I’m not sure where you got the idea that a person needs to own tools in order to use and need fuel for them. That’s just silly. I borrow tillers and shit from friends all the time and have to get gas for them. Don’t own them, but use them. Same if I were to rent shit from the hardware store. You have to refill them before return.
lawl, nobody here has electric mowers.
Most people near my dacha that have lawn mowers have electric one.
It uses batteries, but same basic concept. The grass is just too dense in the area for them to be practical, unless you want to go over the whole thing twice every week.
My can even cut some twigs. Got corded one.
Here in New England, my battery powered snow blower does pretty well, but then again we don’t really get much snow anymore
- A container of gas is heavy, and sloshing makes hard to carry. Would you really walk to get that?
- Battery powered lawncare equipment can probably serve most of us now, certainly most of us in a “walkable” neighborhood
- Do people even do their own yards anymore? Sometimes it seems like I’m the only one
