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Conservatives Are Purposely Making Their Cars Spew Black Smoke To Protest Obama And
Business Insider ^ | July 5 2014 | Hunter Walker

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barkingmoonbats; coal; conspiracytheory; epa
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To: PoloSec

You get extra points if the automatic headlights come on.

Bonus extra points if you can blow it in one window and out another.

(^;


41 posted on 07/05/2014 2:20:43 PM PDT by Clay Moore ("911 is for when the backhoe won't start." JRandomFreeper)
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To: PoloSec

What? Out here, a lot of guys have their diesel-with-dualies pickups duded up with twin stacks-I’m pretty sure it is just a cowboy/redneck fashion statement...


42 posted on 07/05/2014 2:30:24 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Kenton
"Leave it to a bunch of redneck boys to come up with novel, new ways to have fun. I can see the feds putting lots of heat on this new sport. "

What they are doing is most definitely political speech and is thus protected by the first amendment.

43 posted on 07/05/2014 2:39:35 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: nickcarraway

Jam DC and race your engines in idle


44 posted on 07/05/2014 2:45:28 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: PoloSec

Rolling coal has been around since heck was a pup. You can find some videos on YouTube. There are all sorts of targets for the smoke (including cops) or none at all and most get a ton of angry ecowhining in the comments. Here’s one from 4 years ago featuring a logging truck and bicycle riders - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDxjge5hmY


45 posted on 07/05/2014 2:58:47 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: PoloSec

When I rode a Harley with a carb I could shoot a bang and flames from the tailpipe by cutting the ignition out and then, after about a second, in again while rolling at speed. Yee haw.

That said, I never did it to be gratuitous. Either by myself on open road, or once in a blue moon on a tail gater.


46 posted on 07/05/2014 3:14:27 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: RightGeek

There *IS* such a thing as gratuitously making enemies, though.


47 posted on 07/05/2014 3:15:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Ditter

It’s not great,it’s asinine and juvenile.

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48 posted on 07/05/2014 3:19:29 PM PDT by Mears
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To: who knows what evil?

I am from New England, not originally. It was from the Navy. I cannot WAIT to get out of the state of CT. I got a job offer from Iowa, which I think I will take.

BTW. I seen a lot of those trucks with smokestacks around here. I find them amusing. I wouldn’t do it myself.


49 posted on 07/05/2014 3:22:29 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: precisionshootist

This is so funny. I could not stop laughing. I am going to modify my 1995 Ford F250 diesel.


50 posted on 07/05/2014 3:33:15 PM PDT by robert14 (cng)
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To: castlegreyskull
Gotta see if I can get a kit for my Unimog.

If the Prius is on my left, he's going to get a face full of smoke enveloping his car.

My exhaust pipe, as it emerges from underneath, points slightly down and to the left at about Prius roof height.

Presently my Mog runs clean except for the first 2 to 3 minutes of warmup, it belches mostly blue, and sometimes a little black smoke.

51 posted on 07/05/2014 3:38:57 PM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: abclily

I am dating a black woman, should I start referring to that as “rolling coal”? lol


52 posted on 07/05/2014 3:55:44 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
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To: rockrr

ATF is basically light oil with tons of detergents in it.


53 posted on 07/05/2014 4:02:45 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
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To: BudgieRamone

“some fruit hipster in an econobox.”

I’m always prying those things out of my truck’s wheel wells.


54 posted on 07/05/2014 4:25:01 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
When I rode a Harley with a carb I could shoot a bang and flames from the tailpipe by cutting the ignition out and then, after about a second, in again while rolling at speed. Yee haw.

In high school, I had a buddy who would cut his ignition while rolling by in his Mopar, then pump the gas a couple of times, and fire it back up, resulting in an impressive bang out the tailpipe. It was (and still is) a good way to blow a head gasket.

55 posted on 07/05/2014 4:29:08 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: chessplayer

Wars are won using a hundred strategies, thousands of tactics.

Just is but one.


56 posted on 07/05/2014 4:42:51 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (I am a citizen of an idea called America.)
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To: Mears

No having fun! Don’t even talk about having fun! Don’t even make a JOKE about having fun! Stop it this minute or I am gonna cry! WWWWWWAAAAAA!


57 posted on 07/05/2014 4:43:41 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: rockrr

Lifters, whether hydraulic or solid, are inside the engine itself. Pouring something into the air intake and letting it go through the clinders will never even get close to them.


58 posted on 07/05/2014 4:46:55 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (I am a citizen of an idea called America.)
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To: When do we get liberated?

NO! The rolling coal they are discussing is rolling black smoke out of a vehicle’s tailpipe. You should call dating your black lady...LOVE!


59 posted on 07/05/2014 4:52:18 PM PDT by abclily
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To: Ditter

:-)


60 posted on 07/05/2014 5:20:13 PM PDT by Mears
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