I taste better than I can smell. Who am I?

What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?

Let's play a word game. Following are some meaningless words that can be completed by adding random letters on either side of the word.

For example, the word "rdo" can be formed into "pardon".

Using the same technique, can you complete the given words?
ecalc
airb
rinci
tibac
uidel
gorit
igna
eyho

There are 2 cops parked along a one-way street looking for traffic violations. They spot a taxi driver going in the wrong direction, yet they do nothing.

Why?

The person who makes it has no need for it. He who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know they are. What is it?

What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days?

What do you answer even though it never asks you questions?

I am the first thing you need while camping.
I am always with the person named Marcos Valencia and Carrick.
But Pogba Zlatan and Rooney think I am wasteful and do not need me.
I am the second to the last thing to add when you are making a patch.

What am I?

A bus driver was heading down a street in Mexico. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no left turn" sign, and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still - he didn't break any traffic laws. Why not?

It has a long neck, A name of a bird, Feeds on cargo of ships, It's not alive,

What is it?