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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-02-08 05:42 PMOriginal messageI just told a firefighter off! He was shooting the shit in the packie with the clerk and he left his huge pickup truck running out front, (really loud too) and the three men were having a great conversation but I walked in and pointed my finger at him, in a menacing way, :P and said, "You're bad... you're really, really bad!!" And he said, "What did I do?! And I said; "You left you're truck running!" Then he said it costs more to turn it off and then to start it up, then it does to keep it running. I'm guessing it's a diesel engine and I don't know if it's his truck or a town fire dept. truck but it had a town fire dept. plate on the front. Mind you this was all in a joking way and he knew I had a twinkle in my eye and so did he but he did leave almost immediately and drive away!
tech3149 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-02-08 05:56 PMResponse to Original message3. I don't give a frig what type IC engine you've got If you're sitting still for more than a minute, you're wasting more fuel than it would take to shut it off and restart. It might be that older vehicles without ECU's and injection might not gain anything in that short period of time, but I'm not willing to waste a resource that isn't doing anything productive.My personal response is to remind this type of idiot that they're making someone else rich by being careless/thoughtless about how they use a limited and expensive resource. You just can't fix stupid but you might appeal to their greed to gt them to change.
