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Originally Posted by Thymeclock
Considering your final statement, maybe you can understand why a police car legitimately keeps the motor running and the video camera running during a traffic stop. I'm not a big fan of traffic patrol but your gripe about conserving 10 cents worth of gasoline in the idling of a patrol car is truly petty and also absurd.
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Actually given the average duration of a cop stop, the actual cost is in the neighborhood of $0.35-$0.65 cents idling, also remember many police sit on the sides and between roads idling to a tune of roughly $2 an hour depending of coarse on which motor and which local we are talking.
Good reason to develop instant on gasoline motors for NON hybrids, like the old spring start diesel prototype from many years ago.
Also the police camera can likely function regardless of the motors operation, I have one that only uses about a half watt.