City of London Anti-Idling Campaign | 2009

corymorningstar — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:50:19 +0000

Be Idle Free!

Some Facts About Idling

The average Canadian idles their car for about 5-10 minutes per day. Some of this is unavoidable (i.e., waiting at red lights), but a lot of idling is avoidable. This works out to roughly 20,000 to 40,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases per year, or about 1% of all Greenhouse gas emissions from London.
Your engine uses more fuel when it is cold. The best way to warm it up is to drive it – it warms up faster, and you are already on your way to your destination.
If every Londoner reduced idling by just 1 minute per day:

- Over 1.5 million litres of gasoline would be saved every year
- 100 tanker trucks of gas would be saved
- $1.2 million would be saved, available to spend elsewhere in London
- Greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by almost 3,800 tonnes per year