Avoiding Idling Saves Fuel and Reduces Pollution

American drivers spend a lot of time going nowhere, from warming up the engine to sitting in traffic or stuck at a drive-through.

Patricia Weikersheimer of the Argonne National Laboratory said that all those idling cars consume about 3 billion gallons of fuel annually.

“And that produces about 30 million tons of CO2,” she said.

But that pollution can be reduced.

Reposted with permission from Yale Climate Connections.