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Old 06-16-2008, 01:11 PM   #141 (permalink)
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Josie - '87 Toyota Pickup
90 day: 29.5 mpg (US)

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When I moved to this little town with my itty tiny yard, I sold the Murray rider and got an electric mower. It gets the job done, but it tends to burn out the switches fairly regularly.

Electric weed trimmer too - works great. Generating and transmission efficiencies aside, it's still way more energy efficient to use electric grass cutters than gas powered.

Next step: kill the entire yard and reseed with buffalo grass. It only grows about 6" high and then stops - or so I'm told. No cutting required. Gotta love that.

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