Cory Bernardi outlines legislation that has just passed banning 2-stroke motors from 2019 — meaning lawn mowers, leaf blowers, chainsaws, weed whackers, and outboard boat motors. In Australia mowers and fishing tinnies are heritage material. It’s a new carbon tax by stealth, pretending to be about health.
h/t to Tim Blair who adds a movie of Australians dancing with lawn mowers for the Sydney Olympic opening ceremony (just to give you foreigners some appreciation of how attached Australians are to them).
Stock up now. You may not be able to buy them (legally) after 2019. I predict a high black market value.
Bernardi argues that theoretically this ruling could be extended to farm machinery, quad bikes, and off road dirt bikes.
Why did One Nation vote for this? Oops…
At Tim Blairs: Commenter Bruce there suggest this will apply to some model aircraft engines too.
Commenter P says: Temperatures will plummet and we’ll be thrown back into an ice age. Election now.
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September 14, 2017 at 11:52PM
Iowa Climate Science Education 