Cars idling

[Anonymous]

If I don't have errands to run during one of my children's practices/ECs, I will often sit in my car and read or catch up on emails. Unless it's absolutely freezing outside or raining, I turn off my car and open the windows. Many other parents are in their cars too and I've noticed that most are running their cars for the whole hour, sometimes more. I could understand if it was really hot or really cold, but the weather doesn't seem to make a difference. I'm genuinely curious why people do this--aren't they wasting fuel?

Related--we are having road work done in our neighborhood and the dump trucks line the streets, idling for hours and hours. A cement mixer idling indefinitely might make sense, but the dump trucks? Unlike the parents idling at sports practice, construction trucks idling are actually disruptive to the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

In many jurisdictions, it is illegal to do that. Not that cops would actually care or enforce it.

[Anonymous]

I want AC and power to charge my phone.
You do you. A lot of trucks just idle. The drivers might be waiting to be loaded. They idle with ac and radio and wait. That’s how construction works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want AC and power to charge my phone.
You do you. A lot of trucks just idle. The drivers might be waiting to be loaded. They idle with ac and radio and wait. That’s how construction works.

By all means charge your phone so you can scroll facebook and DCUM. You're the most important person in the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want AC and power to charge my phone.
You do you. A lot of trucks just idle. The drivers might be waiting to be loaded. They idle with ac and radio and wait. That’s how construction works.

By all means charge your phone so you can scroll facebook and DCUM. You're the most important person in the world.

She probably has “let’s save the planet” posts all over her FB

[Anonymous]

I idle when it is hot or really cold out. I don't car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I don't have errands to run during one of my children's practices/ECs, I will often sit in my car and read or catch up on emails. Unless it's absolutely freezing outside or raining, I turn off my car and open the windows. Many other parents are in their cars too and I've noticed that most are running their cars for the whole hour, sometimes more. I could understand if it was really hot or really cold, but the weather doesn't seem to make a difference. I'm genuinely curious why people do this--aren't they wasting fuel?

Related--we are having road work done in our neighborhood and the dump trucks line the streets, idling for hours and hours. A cement mixer idling indefinitely might make sense, but the dump trucks? Unlike the parents idling at sports practice, construction trucks idling are actually disruptive to the neighborhood.

Maybe call the hoa

[Anonymous]

Its wasteful and also damaging to the engine. But people who drive $60k vehicles dont care about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its wasteful and also damaging to the engine. But people who drive $60k vehicles dont care about that.

Most $60k vehicles have auto stop-start so the engine will tunr off when stopped and restart when needed automatically.

[Anonymous]

Trucks have no reserve battery so to run any electrics and keep the air brakes working, it needs to stay on.

Just about all trucks in the US now are CCI (Certified Clean Idle), and that also makes them except from laws saying you can't idle more than 5 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Let it go.

[Anonymous]

Ok for EV