Comments on: Having a Green Heart is Great http://mindpetals.com/having-a-green-heart-is-great/ publishing content to inspire Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:53:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dale Y the Green Guy http://mindpetals.com/having-a-green-heart-is-great/comment-page-1/#comment-152567 Dale Y the Green Guy Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:51:32 +0000 http://mindpetals.com/?p=1248#comment-152567 In all honesty, before all the electronics and computers got into your car engine management system, it WAS 30 seconds to break even. The late 80's and early 90's is when that figure changed, but a whole generation of drivers, probably hearing it from their fathers, mine too--and rightly so at that time--learned about the 30 second idling rule. Goodness, in the age of carburetors, every time you started your car, you would get this huge squirt of gasoline dumped into your engine. But with modern fuel injectors spraying an ultra fine mist of fuel almost directly into your cylinders, it takes 1/3 the gas to start your car now as it did then. Thanks for the comment! In all honesty, before all the electronics and computers got into your car engine management system, it WAS 30 seconds to break even. The late 80′s and early 90′s is when that figure changed, but a whole generation of drivers, probably hearing it from their fathers, mine too–and rightly so at that time–learned about the 30 second idling rule.

Goodness, in the age of carburetors, every time you started your car, you would get this huge squirt of gasoline dumped into your engine. But with modern fuel injectors spraying an ultra fine mist of fuel almost directly into your cylinders, it takes 1/3 the gas to start your car now as it did then.

Thanks for the comment!

]]> By: Baltimore Movers http://mindpetals.com/having-a-green-heart-is-great/comment-page-1/#comment-152493 Baltimore Movers Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:50:08 +0000 http://mindpetals.com/?p=1248#comment-152493 I like your idea for taping the plastic bags together, I had no idea they could be so sturdy! I always go into the bank, but usually into a fast food place unless it's closed (if only the drivethrough is open). I didn't know about that 10-second rule, I had heard before that it was 30 seconds. I like your idea for taping the plastic bags together, I had no idea they could be so sturdy! I always go into the bank, but usually into a fast food place unless it’s closed (if only the drivethrough is open). I didn’t know about that 10-second rule, I had heard before that it was 30 seconds.

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