I was wondering what this was from. So it was EPA stupidity. So you are way harder on starters ( which now have to run up to 100 times a trip ) and it probably ends up causing more pollution due to waste from destroyed starters and also cars producing more pollution when the car starts back up.

@sickburnbro@poa.st Many false claims. >So you are way harder on starters ( which now have to run up to 100 times a trip ) Modern electric motors can easily handle far more than the number of startups a vehicle would go through if of acceptable quality. >ends up causing more pollution due to waste from destroyed starters A decent-quality electric motor will outlast the rest of the vehicle, although if the manufacturer put a garbage-quality one in, sure it will die after a few years - but starters can be mostly metal, which actually can be recycled and need not be wasted. >cars producing more pollution when the car starts back up. If an engine is warm, it will not produce much extra pollution starting up. A engine idling in a terrible power band for less than 20 seconds is going to release much more pollution than the 0.5s burst of increased pollution of starting a warm engine. Car engines do not like being idled and the calculation works out that even with cars that do not have start-stop and have a starter with a severely limited service life, it saves fuel and maintenance to stop the engine if you're going to be stopped for more than 20 seconds.