Even if you are not an ecologist, the price of gas makes you certainly a guard of nature. The prices of gas continue to rise. Personally, outward journey at the service station with my red gas little can is not a voyage of the leisures, it was always a drudgery.

It is public notoriety that the lawn mowers supplied with gas are the serious environmental pollutants. It is estimated it that 1 hour of use of lawn mower equalizes to lead a SUV 100 miles. I read that the mowers contribute up to 5% of the pollution of the nation. Comparisons and the statistics much more alarming can be found on the Internet.

Fertilizers and weed killers are contaminating our rivers and streams. Herbicides that run off yards in Minnesota affect the Mississippi Delta just as much as those used in Arkansas. We worry about terrorists attacking our water supply as we cumulatively lay down the spring and fall weed-and-feed.

Even as more cities are putting on water restrictions, lawn sprinkler companies are hard pressed to keep up with demand. During the driest times one only has to drive a few blocks in the early morning to get a free car wash. Even in a pouring rain sprinklers systems are going full tilt.

So what can we do to keep our yards looking nice without doing harm to the environment? Robotic lawn mowers are one answer.

Robotic lawn mowers can mow on a schedule and return to the charging base by them selves all season long without human intervention. This has two benefits, the most obvious is more time to do other things. The second is the less time people spend doing yard work the less money they are going to spend on their yards. Translation: fewer herbicides and pesticides equals less underground water contaminates.