Should you turn off your engine at red lights?
Short answer: Yes. Long answer: as long as you think you’ll be waiting more than 10 seconds. It’s true that in the days of carburetors, it took lots of gas to start an engine. But with fuel injection, it’s a mere drip. In fact, in some Swiss cities, it’s the law to turn off the car at stoplights.
This info is from Celsias, a blog about global warming. (they’re against it.) After getting vague answers from the EPA and even Click and Clack, Mounties from the Canadian Office of Energy Efficiency finally gave a the benchmark number. Apparently they’re into it. So now, there’s a “homemade hybrid” anti-idling movement afoot. Cool!
August 18th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
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