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Keeping my distance in traffic
MichaelC, the whole idea of "extra" gas being used on engine start-up is only true for older cars that don't have computer-controlled fuel injectors. This has been sufficiently covered by the Car Talk guys, Slate's Green Lantern, and sibling site Ask MetaFilter... at this point, if you're driving a fuel-injected car, you really do use just as much gas as you need to to start it up, which isn't much more than if the engine were idling at that moment.
posted by delfuego August 10, 2008 at 8:39 AM