Posted on 07/05/2014 1:23:07 PM PDT by PoloSec
FULL TITLE: Conservatives Are Purposely Making Their Cars Spew Black Smoke To Protest Obama And Environmentalists
Pickup trucks customized to spew black smoke into the air are quickly becoming the newest weapon in the culture wars.
"Coal Rollers" are diesel trucks modified with chimneys and equipment that can force extra fuel into the engine causing dark black smoke to pour out of the chimney stacks. These modifications are not new, but as Slate's Dave Weigel pointed out on Thursday, "rolling coal" has begun to take on a political dimension with pickup drivers increasingly viewing their smokestacks as a form of protest against environmentalists and Obama administration emissions regulations.
Last month, Vocativ noted many coal rollers focus their fumes on "nature nuffies," or people who drive hybrids, and "rice burners," or Japanese-made cars.
"The feeling around here is that everyone who drives a small car is a liberal," a roller named Ryan told Vocativ. "I rolled coal on a Prius once just because they were tailing me."
Weigel spoke to a seller of coal rolling customization equipment who described why some drivers see spewing smoke as a political protest.
"I run into a lot of people that really don’t like Obama at all," the salesperson said. "If he’s into the environment, if he’s into this or that, we’re not. I hear a lot of that. To get a single stack on my truck—that’s my way of giving them the finger. You want clean air and a tiny carbon footprint? Well, screw you."
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Don’t coal me bro. :-)
the circle jerk car
“Not racist?”
Use kerosene instead. It’ll spew white smoke.
You’ll kill mosquitos, too.
(Not sure today’s engines could handle that though :-)
I always light up a couple old tires on Earth Day...just because.
Riight.
With the price of diesel these days, hard-pressed truckers are going to burn a little more just to pi$$-off the One.
Tell me again about that bridge in Manhattan.
Could be worse: Democrats are constantly throwing lead into the air of their cities.
Since conservatives are, by definition, racist, they should be rigging their trucks to spew white smoke.
Down shifting my 98 Chevy diesel will fumigate and smoke anyone who is unfortunate enough to be right and behind me. Yes i do it to annoying pricks in traffic, but its most gratifying if its some fruit hipster in an econobox.
Just jogged my memory about “laying pipe”, some years ago. LOL.
Google “rolling coal” and you’ll find plenty of discussion on diesel forums about it.
First, convert it to diesel.
I remember seeing guys walk into an auto parts store and buy a quart of automatic transmission fluid, take it out to their car and pour it down the carburetor (with the engine running of course). The result was a thick stinky cloud of white.
I asked one once and he told me that it was to unstick hydraulic lifters.
I never tried it on anything that I cared about.
I can see the feds putting lots of heat on this new sport.
Rings, too. And burns carbon out like crazy.
I’m sure they’ll make it a hate crime, or a crime against Gaia...
I saw one of these pickup trucks today on the way home. The driver had the exhaust stacked upward, emitting black smoke.
The BI rag continues to demonstrate its Leftwing bias.
Great grandad when he was a kid used to put a spark plug in his exhaust and fire it off for grins - he’d be able to disable a plug on the engine (V8) and the extra fuel would come out making a flame 14ft long behind him.
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