That's because gasoline engines use very little fuel to idle, especially modern ones. You're saving a miniscule amount of fuel and increasing the number of starts on the engine by at least 10x or more.

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It was probably even worse since it was the 1.6 turbo ecoboost.

A 1.6L needs so little fuel to keep it turning. For brief stop/starts it probably takes more fuel to restart it than to keep it running for that 2 seconds.