This idling obsession is mind-boggling. I see people do this all the time (dudes, usually) and almost always in nearly new vehicles. Anyone who has ever listened to “Car Talk” knows this is a pointless and unnecessarily polluting waste of fossil fuel, with devastating environmental repercussions. It must be a macho thing, like “I’m so cool ‘cuz I don’t give a sh*t”. These are usually the same people who think it’s their right as an American to burn dirt cheap, heavily subsidized gasoline in unlimited quantities.
Dudettes aren’t exempt, either. I see them totter out to their vehicles (which have been ‘warming up’ for 20 minutes or more) wearing a mini and a wee sweater. No species is more deserving of extinction than ours.