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Originally Posted by Xist
When I drove a school bus, [o]ne 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.
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That was on a hundred-gallon tank and in that thread we guessed that a large diesel would burn one gallon an hour. Considering the accuracy of fuel gauges and how little attention the guy paid to it, I cannot imagine him noticing a decrease of one percent per hour.
Of course, the worst part of idling engines is the Gasoline Fumes!
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...ame-30846.html