Have you bought any gas lately?

[Durian Fiend]

Sell them for cheap to someone who will use them much more often than you do, then buy battery powered replacements.  

That doesn't seem like a solution to a problem as much as the creation of one.

The stuff I have works, is in good order, and if I sell them for cheap I then have to spend more than I get for them to buy others. The math doesn't add up. After all, doing nothing is so much easier... and cheaper.

And, besides, I'm not a big fan of batteries. I have always had a relationship with them.. large banks of them for a solar house, all the batteries that are a part of the equipment HVO has deployed in the field, the UPS system my work station current is protected by. But all told I don't believe getting rid of an already existing well working and not all that often used piece of gas powered equipment so as to require the planet to cough up the materials needed to make a battery powered replacement makes any sense at all.

And, besides, even with a long history of a relationship with them.. I am not a fan of batteries. and don't believe the current craze is anymore than four track tape players were.. a passing fad. I am not a fan of EV either... again.. I ain't into batteries, especially on that level. And, of course, until we create the electricity with clean sources what's the difference? Create the CO2 out the tailpipe or the smokestack, and add the toxic crap that goes into making a battery too?

We could split hairs, and I am sure there's reasons to go one way or another, but as long as it works.. why try and fix it?

I’m on the same page as you, and thought my statement was absurd enough to indicate it wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.