This causes carbon monoxide poisoning right?

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Anonymous wrote:The purpose of a car is to get from point a to point b. Running the engine & burning gasoline imported from the Middle East just to stay cool is not good for the planet. He should have checked into a hotel.

You have a point about the environment, but the hotel suggestion is absurd if he was just trying to take a quick catnap.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually it’s not impossible to get carbon monoxide poisoning under these circumstance even if you are in well ventilated conditions. Not likely, put possibly. So you can simmer down PP.

It’s also possible to be struck by lightning.

But there is a difference between a car sitting and a car that’s moving. So PP need not be so nasty.

https://www.nationwide.com/lc/resources/farm-and-agribusiness/articles/dangers-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning#:~:text=The%20risk%20of%20CO%20poisoning,area%20with%20minimal%20air%20movement.

This link is about gas powered lawn mowers, tractors, etc. Not cars.

Read it again. It includes trucks. The point is, fumes accumulate when you aren’t moving so it’s possible. Rare, unlikely, but possible. So it’s a factually different circumstance than when you are driving down the road.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually it’s not impossible to get carbon monoxide poisoning under these circumstance even if you are in well ventilated conditions. Not likely, put possibly. So you can simmer down PP.

It’s also possible to be struck by lightning.

But there is a difference between a car sitting and a car that’s moving. So PP need not be so nasty.

https://www.nationwide.com/lc/resources/farm-and-agribusiness/articles/dangers-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning#:~:text=The%20risk%20of%20CO%20poisoning,area%20with%20minimal%20air%20movement.

This link is about gas powered lawn mowers, tractors, etc. Not cars.

Read it again. It includes trucks. The point is, fumes accumulate when you aren’t moving so it’s possible. Rare, unlikely, but possible. So it’s a factually different circumstance than when you are driving down the road.

But not cars…

[Anonymous]

Good job OP, if he had stayed asleep in that AC too long he may have frozen to death.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually it’s not impossible to get carbon monoxide poisoning under these circumstance even if you are in well ventilated conditions. Not likely, put possibly. So you can simmer down PP.

It’s also possible to be struck by lightning.

But there is a difference between a car sitting and a car that’s moving. So PP need not be so nasty.

https://www.nationwide.com/lc/resources/farm-and-agribusiness/articles/dangers-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning#:~:text=The%20risk%20of%20CO%20poisoning,area%20with%20minimal%20air%20movement.

This link is about gas powered lawn mowers, tractors, etc. Not cars.

Read it again. It includes trucks. The point is, fumes accumulate when you aren’t moving so it’s possible. Rare, unlikely, but possible. So it’s a factually different circumstance than when you are driving down the road.

Don’t be stupid

[Anonymous]

OP it is okay. Maybe you were also thinking of when folks get stuck in the snow and run the heat (the issue hear being the snow blocks the exhaust pipe and it goes into the car instead). Your heart was in the right place.

[Anonymous]

I can’t believe you all aren’t side eyeing someone sitting in their car with it running for a long period of time. No wonder earth is on fire

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe you all aren’t side eyeing someone sitting in their car with it running for a long period of time. No wonder earth is on fire

Sitting behind your computer in AC cooled Livingroom/office, we are all environmentalists. What is your AC set for now? All talk, no action idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP it is okay. Maybe you were also thinking of when folks get stuck in the snow and run the heat (the issue hear being the snow blocks the exhaust pipe and it goes into the car instead). Your heart was in the right place.

Too bad her brain wasn’t.

[Anonymous]

The carbon monoxide issue has been covered already but it's actually illegal to idle like that in many jurisdictions. It causes air pollution, not to mention is also a just a waste of gas.

That said, I would not have knocked on someone's window if I saw them idling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The carbon monoxide issue has been covered already but it's actually illegal to idle like that in many jurisdictions. It causes air pollution, not to mention is also a just a waste of gas.

That said, I would not have knocked on someone's window if I saw them idling.

I only know of truck (as in semi) idling bans in jurisdictions, not car or SUVs.

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What? Op you think you can't run the car ac with the windows closed???

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Oh man, now I feel guilty. I thought you are not supposed to run a parked car for very long with the windows closed. Now I need to do some google investigation. Maybe it only happens if you are there for hours and hours?

No, you nincompoop. It happens when there is no ventilation. That is why a method of suicide is sitting in your car in your garage with the garage door closed, and letting the car run. It’s also why if you are stranded in a winter storm and keep the car running for heat, they say to make sure the tail pipe stays clear of snow. If it becomes blocked with snow, the gases back up into the car and you die.

Seriously, you thought a car running for hours causes carbon monoxide poisoning? What do you think happens when people go on hours long road trips? How old are you? How do you function day to day?

I admit I am a nincompoop and I feel bad waking him. Growing up we were always told to open the windows a crack when running the AC or heat too long on car rides.

Do not feel bad. You are kind and were concerned. Lots of people don't know lots of stuff. I'm glad you're here and you learned something.

During a discussion at work once, lots of people aren't aware that it isn't safe to run your car in the garage with the garage door open. The carbon monoxide can enter the house.

[Anonymous]

I wonder how this happened: https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2023/07/26/marines-found-at-gas-station-died-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how this happened: https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2023/07/26/marines-found-at-gas-station-died-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/

If the exhaust pipe has pin hole leaks that are not visible during routine inspection.

OP: you did a good thing.