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Sustainability Tip of the Week <\/span> Should I warm my car up before I drive?<\/strong><\/em> Idling your car gets 0 miles per gallon!<\/strong><\/p>\n For more details and information check out: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2014\/12\/29\/the-biggest-winter-energy-myth-that-you-need-to-idle-your-car-before-driving\/<\/a> <\/p>\n Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 09 Dec 2019 12:55:42 +0000 by\u00a0j.coons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sustainability Tip of the Week A Simple Wish for a Better Tomorrow Should I warm my car up before…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA Simple Wish for a Better Tomorrow<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMinimize idling your car to warm it up. Most manufacturers recommend driving off gently after about 30 seconds after you start it. The engine will warm up faster being driven, which will allow the heat to turn on sooner, decrease your fuel costs, and reduce emissions. Thus idling in winter has no benefit to your car.<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.fueleconomy.gov\/feg\/coldweather.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n
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