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Winter Myth...
That you need to idle your car before driving !
We’ve all heard the idea: In winter,
your car needs a little time to warm
up before you can drive it. And that’s
why across the United States, people
who live in cold and snowy places --
and especially those whose cars have
remote starters -- often fi re up their
engines long before they start driving.
Heck, they might even start the car
from the kitchen in the morning, and
only then start the coffee brewing.
But it turns out that this idea of
idling your car during the winter
is just wrong. A 2009 study
found that on average, Americans
thought they should idle for over 5
minutes before driving when temperatures
were below 32 degrees!
ning up gas, but getting no miles for it.
But it’s not just fuel waste, it’s the
accompanying emissions. What does
it look like when you have a whole
population of people -- or at least
the northern belt of a country like
the U.S. -- idling their cars in winter?
A 2009 study in Energy Policy tried
to calculate the consequences. The
researchers found that, overall, all
types of vehicle idling -- idling in winter,
idling while waiting for someone
or something, and idling in traffi c --
contribute a staggering 1.6 percent
of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
That number is “almost double
the total emissions for the iron
and steel manufacturing industry
That is not to say that all idling should
be stopped immediately. Some idling
-- particularly in traffi c -- may be unis
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Like many misconceptions, the
idea behind winter car idling begins
with a kernel of truth. Cars
do get worse fuel economy when
it’s really cold out -- they are at
least 12 percent less fuel effi cient.
Moreover, older cars -- which relied
on carburetors as a crucial
engine component -- did need to
warm up to work well, according
to several auto industry experts.
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In the 80’s manufacturers did away
with carburetors in favor of electronic
fuel injection, which uses
sensors to supply fuel to the engine
and get the right air and fuel mix.
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Or to put it more bluntly: Whereas
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idling will always be stuck in place
is unavoidable. But the other two categories
of idling -- in winter and while
waiting -- make a lot less sense. And
the study found that they account
for nearly half of all U.S. greenhouse
gas emissions attributable to idling.
When 1,300 Americans were surveyed
about idling for the study,
the average amount of time that
respondents thought you should
idle your car before driving, when
it is lower that 32 degrees Fahrenheit
outside, was 5.01 minutes!
And since that’s the average,
many people thought you should
idle for a lot longer than that.
“These values indicate that beliefs
about how much idling is appropriate
or desirable are highly
distorted,” the authors wrote.
The study found that if people
would just knock off unnecessary
idling of this sort, then consumers
as a whole would save
$5.9 billion per year on fuel costs
(based on the cost of fuel in 2008).
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