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Originally Posted by masraum
does it make a huge difference to one car and one person's fuel bills, probably not unless they spend several hours a day commuting in stop and go, but then it's not really designed to help your pocket book. It's designed to help the planet.
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Totally spurious experiment. The little beaker is fuel to start a warm engine one time. The large one is fuel used idling an engine for 90 mins. A genuine exhibit would show almost the same amount of fuel in each, because the fuel needed to start an engine in 90 minutes of driving would be about the same as idling for 90 mins. In other words, you would multiply the small fuel sample by about 30 to 40 times. Their own experiment showed that starting and stopping saves about 8% fuel, but they are not doing a blind test and have skewed the results.