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Here's the really really really disgusting bit:

"The hydrocarbon emissions from a half-hour of yard work with the two-stroke leaf blower are about the same as a 3,900-mile drive from Texas to Alaska in a Raptor," said Jason Kavanagh, Engineering Editor at Edmunds.com.

@sps At that point it seems more environmentally friendly to just set the leaf blower on fire than fueling it up to use...

@pstewart the engineer's quote above finishes with the argument that it's more environmentally-friendly to figure out how to use the crazy high-performance pickup as a leaf blower.

@sps That does it. My next band name (heavy metal for sure, with band logo in crazy Gothic vampire font) is:

Oxides of Nitrogen