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Originally Posted by Xist
When I drove a school bus, most of our fleet did not have air conditioning, unless they were for Special Needs or sports, but if we had it, we usually kept the bus running while waiting. One day pamphlets from the AZDOT showed up telling us that an idling engine consumed as much fuel as one powering a vehicle traveling seventy miles an hour.
None of us believed it. One driver said that he had idled for two hours recently and it had not used anything.
I believe that is called perpetual motion or magic.
One GPH sounds reasonable, even for a large engine.
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For a large diesel 1 GPH is somewhat reasonable. If I can believe my Scangauge, the VW idle consumption is closer to 0.1 GPH, 1.9 liter displacement, about 1/4 what a gasser consumes (I think, others here may know this exactly).