{"id":43996,"date":"2014-07-30T14:04:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T20:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/30\/idling-cars-are-the-devils-gas-mileage.html"},"modified":"2014-07-31T07:07:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T13:07:37","slug":"idling-cars-are-the-devils-gas-mileage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/30\/idling-cars-are-the-devils-gas-mileage.html","title":{"rendered":"Idling cars are the devil's gas mileage"},"content":{"rendered":"
Back in the Dark Ages, when everything was carburetors and clay tablets, I was always taught something more like the five minute rule — that the cost of gas burned in starting the motor was about five minutes worth of operation. \u00a0Not surprisingly, more efficient engines (and better starters) make that rule a lot smaller.<\/p>\n

Of course, I also recall auto touring in Italy a few years back, where the diesel cars we had automatically shut themselves off when you were stopped at a traffic signal, starting as soon as you release the break and put your foot on the gas. Now that's efficiency.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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If Your Car Will Be Idling for More Than 10 Seconds, Just Turn it Off<\/a>
\n There are plenty of occasions where you might find your car idling. In a long drive through, picking someone up from work, or just sitting in your driveway. If you’re idling longer than 10 seconds, though, you’re better off turning off the engine.\n <\/p>\n

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Back in the Dark Ages, when everything was carburetors and clay tablets, I was always taught something more like the five minute rule — that the cost of gas burned in starting the motor was about five minutes worth of operation. \u00a0Not surprisingly, more efficient engines (and better starters) make that rule a lot smaller. … Continue reading “Idling cars are the devil's gas mileage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,5,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-cars","category-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13175,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/03\/saving_sweat_or_saving_ga.html","url_meta":{"origin":43996,"position":0},"title":"Saving sweat or saving gas?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Jul-08 6:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"What are the economics (at least in terms of fuel efficiency) between driving with the air conditioner on and driving with \"360 A\/C\" (i.e., with the windows rolled down)? 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