I got flamed for posting this in GD, but I'm not convinced it's a bad idea. [View All]

What is wrong with outlawing DRIVE-THRU fast food? If you look at this idea from simply a numbers standpoint, I can't see how it could be bad.

How many hundreds of thousands of fast food drive-thrus in the US? How many cars patronize those idle-manias in a single day?

Put it this way: You drive alone to your place of employment. It takes 45 minutes each way. During your hour long lunch, you idle alone in your car for 15 minutes at Mickey D's. That means you're idling your car for almost 15% of the time you use it every day. Multiply that by tens of millions of cars presumably idling for that much time every day and how much gas gets burned, and how much co2 gets released into the air?

Are we really so lazy as to dismiss this kind of savings and positive impact on global climate change out of hand because to some it would be inconvenient?

How about banning drive-thrus for anyone alone in a car during peak times?

I'm old enough to remember the FIRST drive-thrus, and don't think anyone missed them before they opened up.

Good puzzles are made of a thousand pieces or more. Solving the global climate change problem is without a doubt the biggest puzzle of our time. Why couldn't this be just one piece of the puzzle?