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  • SippyCup@feddit.nltoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldThe perfect job exists.
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    4 days ago

    That is wear and tear on your engine, and the meager benefits you get from that are far offset by the maintenance costs.

    For example, my not so fuel friendly car has, over the course of 3 years, shut itself off at stop lights for over an hour and a half.

    Through doing this an entire gallon of fuel has been saved.

    Over 3 years.

    It’s engine down time is usually less than 10 seconds.

    I get that it feels like this is a benefit if you have all of the cars everywhere doing it, but this ain’t it. Even environmentally, the extra batteries we need to produce will be more harmful than the miniscule exhaust will be.

    Service trucks will put many, many more miles on them in that 3 years than I will. Their idle time might be a great deal more if they’re leaving it to idle while they go try to make a delivery. But, two things: those systems are ridiculously easy to turn off, by design, and diesel engines really don’t like working that way. The wear and tear would be worse, more expensive, and more harmful.

    I’m not saying throw your hands up and give up. I an saying that the service vehicles are the ones we actually should be making exceptions for. Even in a consumer car free society, we’ll still need the service vehicles to do work.





  • We have the biggest bombs, the best bombs. Everybody says we have the most powerful, beautiful, you know they can’t make them in other countries these other places they don’t even have water. Can you believe that? Imagine that no water but bombs, they make bombs. So we send our biggest and best, the most powerful military in the world, and they say oh no Mr President oh Mr Trump won’t you please please not send the bombs but that’s what it is folks. No water. And they’re begging me, every day they’re sending someone to beg at my feet for a ceasefire and I say ok! No more shooting. And that’s how it works folks.