I think you're missing the author's point about the mower laws. It was specifically in the context of lost livelihood, not that people are offended at mower laws. The same applies for the vehicle manufacturing mandate 13 years away.
If you want to understand the author (and maybe you don't, what do I know?), you should ask yourself if you can conceive of ways that such policies would contribute to loss of livelihood (specifically of small business owners).
I'm not saying that this critique is factual. I wouldn't know.
> For instance, they’ve banned the use of gas-powered yard equipment, which limits our ability to do yard work (or forces us to buy pricey new mowers and blowers).
Aside from the author putting it as a “costs money” type if inconvenience, professional landscapers would also move to electric equipment.
Companies manufacturing those engines will be impacted, but also the writing was on the wall for years and if they had no plan B they’d have gone under sooner or later. They sure would wish it was “later”, but in the current climate helping gasoline engine makers keep producing engines is clearly not a societal goal however we turn it.
The author is pretty explicit on all his points, I’m not sure there was much subtlety lost on why he doesn’t like current CA policies.
If you want to understand the author (and maybe you don't, what do I know?), you should ask yourself if you can conceive of ways that such policies would contribute to loss of livelihood (specifically of small business owners).
I'm not saying that this critique is factual. I wouldn't know.