Cold Weather Starts

Who came up with the brilliant observation that it only takes one minute to warm up your car in winter? If you are unfortunate enough not to have a garage, your car has to sit out in -20 and -30 degree temps overnight. Before you can go anywhere, you need to scrape the windows, dust off the accumulated snow, etc. -- you can't just start the engine, count to 60 and then take off.
I don't appreciate walking down the street past an idling diesel engine. It stinks, besides which -- it's polluting. I don't see the need to leave any vehicle idling for long periods, and I acknowledge the convenience of remote starters whilst also acknowledging that, along with pretty well everything that's invented to help us, there is a point at which "use" becomes "abuse".
But it's just wrong to say you only need one minute to warm up your car. What's worse -- idiots who come up with these ideas, or the other idiots who give it credence by publishing it in the paper or reading it on the radio?
Well, here's my little contribution. Ignore the radio messages and the written advice and listen to me: take as long as you want, to warm up your car. Let me modify that: expect to take at least five minutes, maybe closer to ten, to get your vehicle ready to roll.