Clean Cities Top 20 Fact #10

An idling vehicle gets 0 MPG. "Every year, vehicle idling in the United States consumes more than 6 billion gallons of fuel at a cost of more than $20 billion."

Clean Cities coalitions have helped their stakeholders reduce idling through various approaches, from obtaining funding for school bus heaters, to partnering with government agencies and businesses to establish truck stop electrification sites, to helping set idle-reduction policies.

This work is paying off. In 2012, Clean Cities stakeholders' idle-reduction initiatives saved 31 million gasoline gallon equivalents (GGEs). This reduction corresponds to nearly 400,000 tons of GHG emissions averted.