Want your child to breath fresh air at school?
Please consider to turn your engines off to pick-up and drop off students. Not only does turning off our cars improve the air in the immediate surroundings, it also reduces the formation of ground-level ozone, the biggest air quality problem in Central Texas!
Idling your vehicle emits harmful pollutants, wastes fuel, and contributes to climate change. Many areas have anti-idling laws, generally for health reasons. And most of the “justifications” given for idling are myths. Here are a few facts:
- Idling a car for more than 10 seconds uses MORE fuel than turning the engine off and back on.
- The best way to warm up your car in the winter is to drive it slowly. This warms up the transmission, wheel bearings, and any other moving parts. Idling only warms the engine.
- Idling a cold engine (i.e. just after turning it on in the winter) produces more than twice the normal harmful emissions.
- Excessive idling damages your engine by depositing residues from incomplete combustion.
- Every two minutes of car idling consumes the same amount of gas required to drive approximately one mile. If a driver idles for one hour, one gallon of gasoline is wasted.
- The United States contains less than 5 percent of the world's population but produces 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.
- Every gallon of gasoline burned—for driving and idling—releases 20 pounds of carbon dioxide, making the transportation sector responsible for about a quarter of overall US carbon dioxide emissions.
And remember, as long as you’re idling your fuel economy is ZERO [1] [2]
[1] http://brighterplanet.com/personal-actions/20-avoid-idling-your-car
[2] http://www.greenyour.com/transportation/car/car-driving/tips/avoid-car-idling
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