How gas powered leaf blower creates as much pollution in one hour as a car does driving over 1,100 miles. (EPA data)

Question

I don’t understand how this is possible. The car engine is more efficient but the leaf blower would use a gallon or less of fuel that that amount of time as where the car would burn 30 to 40 times more that for the trip.

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Answer 1

The short answer is that they burn fuel much less efficiently and because they don’t have any of the fancy filters that cars have. Because they burn less efficiently they release more harmful byproducts like carbon monoxide.

Then, There is no catalytic converter on the leaf blower exhaust like a car has. So those bypeoducts are just release into the air. Unlike in a car where a lot of them are captured by the catalytic converter