FACT: Idling for longer than 10 seconds uses more gas than starting your engine.
This is according to the Canadian Office of Energy Efficiency’s Idle-Free Zone & American Society of Mechanical Engineers “Our research showed a V6 restart takes about the same fuel as 5 seconds of idling.”
What’s also interesting is that:
- 10 minutes idling = $0.25.
- 60 minutes/day idling in traffic = $1.50.
Hybrid vehicles turn their engines off when idling. Imagine the impact of this in traffic. I’m not referring to cost, but emissions. The amount of pollution we would prevent would be astronomical….. to the chagrin of Big Gas Co 
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