Idle Moments 1
Not sure how I feel about this.
On the one-hand, idling vehicles don’t seem to be the eleventh plague.
On the other hand, I find myself becoming extremely irritated when I see one just sitting there using up fuel and spewing garbage into the air. And it seems as if the drivers who are too lazy and inconsiderate to shut off their vehicles always those who drive behemoths that get 11 gallons to a mile, not drivers of VWs and Priuses.
Frankly, if a crackdown is needed, it’s needed for folks who don’t shut off their cars when they refuel. That seems to be a bigger problem in air conditioning season, which is due any day now, than in heating season.
The mentality of those who would blow us up rather than suffer a moment’s discomfort should make a fascinating study for psychologists. Personally, I think they are just bone selfish.
May 27, 2009 at 7:26 pm
I think it’ll work wonders for Newark, which you and I both know (from experience) is a problem city for out-of-place idling. As a booze-soaked college town it goes with the territory, but that doesn’t mean it ought to.