[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by larrybuck

...some of us don't turn off the engine at every stoplight, we don't gas it up to 80% potential going up steep hills, and mountains....BECAUSE: we are driving vehicles with over 200,000 miles, or income is low, or non existant, so we want our rides to LAST basically forever, so we minimize any potential extra electrical wear, and tear, and keep the rpm's as low as possible because we want that engine to last forever!

Of course the problem with that is the AFAIK untested assumption that those things do in fact cause significant extra wear.