Hasta La Creative!

I would like to spend my allotted time with you on the leaf-blower industry, and how the marketers of this much-maligned and in many ways infuriating mechanism have done a lousy job of defending themselves.

One could argue that the leaf blower is a model of efficiency and even water conservation, but the only argument emanating from leaf-blower makers is that any efforts to tone down their noise and fumes will lead to less powerful products.

The leaf-blowing industry, in other words, has been asleep at the switch. And while they have been making excuses for themselves, the evidence piles up that leaf blowers are a plague on humanity.

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