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Conservatives Are Purposely Making Their Cars Spew Black Smoke To Protest Obama And Enviros
Business Insider ^ | 5JUL2014 | Hunter Walker

Posted on 07/06/2014 2:08:09 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: coal; msnbcconservatives; obama; roller; smoke
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1 posted on 07/06/2014 2:08:10 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Full title is:

Conservatives Are Purposely Making Their Cars Spew Black Smoke To Protest Obama And Environmentalists


2 posted on 07/06/2014 2:08:43 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I only wish I could have Mooch and Barry’s faces the target of the smoke! Cough cough!


3 posted on 07/06/2014 2:09:44 PM PDT by Viennacon (Rebuke the Repuke!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Isn’t black smoke from a diesel merely a byproduct of steppin on the go pedal?


4 posted on 07/06/2014 2:11:54 PM PDT by paintriot (On the Conservative Coast.)
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To: Viennacon

Just burn an old tire on Earth Day...it’s easier.


5 posted on 07/06/2014 2:12:22 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: paintriot

To the point of making a car disappear in the smoke? Nope!


6 posted on 07/06/2014 2:12:36 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

This is pretty hard to believe. Sounds like the stuff of urban legend. Would somebody REALLY spend the money to do this?


7 posted on 07/06/2014 2:13:08 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: paintriot

See the videos at the linky.


8 posted on 07/06/2014 2:13:18 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I’d rather have an after burner for tailgate huggers.


9 posted on 07/06/2014 2:13:29 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Jack Hydrazine; moder_ator

This Thread Topic outlived its usefulness yesterday. Dupe...


10 posted on 07/06/2014 2:14:15 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

HuffPo has a story on it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/06/rolling-coal-photos-video_n_5561477.html


11 posted on 07/06/2014 2:14:18 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Never seen it before. Oh well.


12 posted on 07/06/2014 2:14:18 PM PDT by paintriot (On the Conservative Coast.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

13 posted on 07/06/2014 2:14:51 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

LOL


14 posted on 07/06/2014 2:14:54 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: hal ogen

That’s what they do in south africa. Different purpose but still smokey. May trade the Hemi in for a coal fired motorized truck. Of course I’ll have to hire a stoker. ;>}


15 posted on 07/06/2014 2:16:58 PM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Conservatives? The ones around here doing that are white trash that just want to be as obnoxious as the ghetto boom-boom car drivers. If you asked them if they were protesting anything they wouldn’t know what you were talking about.


16 posted on 07/06/2014 2:17:43 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"Sounds like the stuff of urban legend."

Negative.

You can purchase fuel management software that will make a diesel pickup blow black smoke in quantities that would make a steam engine blush.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

17 posted on 07/06/2014 2:20:25 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: rktman

“Of course I’ll have to hire a stoker.”

Naw! Just marry one! “Stoke that coal, and make me a sammich!”


18 posted on 07/06/2014 2:22:18 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Krankor
"Release the caustic vapors!"


19 posted on 07/06/2014 2:24:22 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

The writer really does not know what he is talking bout. He talks about cars spew black smoke. Then he talks about modified truck with chimneys?


20 posted on 07/06/2014 2:25:07 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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