Can anyone explain why so many Denver drivers leave their cars running while pumping gas? (safety, bars)

[Timmyy]

Originally Posted by N610DL

To keep the heat on? Either way this damages the car beyond belief. When I lived in CO, my car freaked the hell out with other issues adjust to high altitude (alternator was a big one.)

Shut 'em off folks - not worth it.

Side note - I recall those pumps being very loose and lots of dripping onto the ground and tank to the point I always had to use paper towels to wipe my hands off. Anybody else notice this?

This is another issue I have not experienced. I am not saying it doesn't happen, just not to me. I tend to let the spout sit in the tank a few seconds and shake a bit before removing it.

[emm74]

Originally Posted by N610DL

Side note - I recall those pumps being very loose and lots of dripping onto the ground and tank to the point I always had to use paper towels to wipe my hands off. Anybody else notice this?

ha ha, yes, only Colorado has drivers who let gas get on the gas pump when they fill up so your hands get dirty. That doesn't exist in any other place in the entire world.

Seriously, we get that you hated Colorado. You don't need to keep coming back to this subforum to tell us so.

[TigerLily24]

Originally Posted by maciesmom

Ha.. I was next to one of those today. I've seen it occasionally since moving here almost 25 years ago. I have no idea what it's about. The driver today must've been at least 1.5 car lengths behind the crosswalk. At a major intersection. I just kept wondering what the point could possibly be.

If you stop too close to, or in the crosswalk, it could trigger the red light camera at those intersections that have them.

As for the OP, I've never seen this myself.
Weird that you see it so often.

[Thoreau424]

Originally Posted by 79Vespa303

Ok, well there are large red signs as soon as you pull up that say Turn off your engine

So do you follow each and every sign you see that tries to control people's lives? And, have you ever driven over and disobeyed the posted speed limit? Self-righteousness is easy to turn off and on.

[Quietude]

Originally Posted by Thoreau424

So do you follow each and every sign you see that tries to control people's lives? And, have you ever driven over and disobeyed the posted speed limit? Self-righteousness is easy to turn off and on.

There's a sign over there that says WARNING DANGEROUS CLIFF EDGE STAY BACK.

Probably just authoritarian BS. G'wan, check it out.

[Quietude]

Originally Posted by TigerLily24

If you stop too close to, or in the crosswalk, it could trigger the red light camera at those intersections that have them.

Well, maybe. But every driving guideline (and regulation) I know of is good with stopping behind the limit line or crosswalk marker, and a foot or two more is just good sense and courtesy. (Staying further back on an inside lane with turning cross traffic is further good sense and courtesy... it's a PITA to turn around some moron who's a foot over the line, or even right at it, sometimes.)

But this weird practice of staying ten feet, a carlength, more back... I've never seen it anywhere else. And clearly some pedestrian/bike types consider anything closer an encroachment.

[woob]

Originally Posted by Quietude

But this weird practice of staying ten feet, a carlength, more back... I've never seen it anywhere else. And clearly some pedestrian/bike types consider anything closer an encroachment.

I have never noticed a car stopping that far behind the line, but I frequently (almost at every red light in denver actually) see cars stopped in the cross walk. Dozens of times I've had to walk my kids into moving traffic or behind the stopped car when we are trying to cross the street.

[N610DL]

Originally Posted by emm74

ha ha, yes, only Colorado has drivers who let gas get on the gas pump when they fill up so your hands get dirty. That doesn't exist in any other place in the entire world.

Seriously, we get that you hated Colorado. You don't need to keep coming back to this subforum to tell us so.

That's some serious fake news right there - I liked living in Colorado, just don't want to be there 100% of the time. Many are like me as well.

No, the pumps are generally older than say NJ or CA - The metal hose is probably for the 85 grade fuel which isn't out here in CA. And the pumps in CA have a better limiter on them so they don't leak as much, that is unless it's a really old gas station.

[Thoreau424]

Originally Posted by Quietude

There's a sign over there that says WARNING DANGEROUS CLIFF EDGE STAY BACK. Probably just authoritarian BS.

Well, based on your "logic", all that matters is READ SIGN or DON'T READ SIGN. How about read it and think? Life isn't about blinding following or blindly disregarding signs. It's about thinking and processing, and then acting upon the conclusion reached in the brain. Here's a surprise: signs do not think, talk, rationalize, etc. That's why it's up to us to do what they can't do.

Did it ever occur to you that pranksters can and do move signs? If all you ever do is obediently follow them, you might just end up in a hole someday.

[Mike from back east]

Well, so much for Christmas spirit, eh, only 2nd of January and we're back in bickering mode.