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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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To: Jack Hydrazine

Typical emissions testing has looked for catalytic converter bypasses for years. By bypassing it, your mileage goes up considerable, at least in older cars. Computer controlled cars likely adjust for it.

Even if you created such a bypass for a diesel, you would likely get so much waste carbon in your exhaust that your particulate readings would still be high 20 miles later.


41 posted on 07/06/2014 3:17:48 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: CrazyIvan
Conservatives? The ones around here doing that are white trash that just want to be as obnoxious as the ghetto boom-boom car drivers.

Around here they usually have the stars and bars flying from a pole mounted in the bed--between the coal pipes.

42 posted on 07/06/2014 3:27:53 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

We have enough jacks here in Houston that spew crap out their tailpipes to put them to shame.


43 posted on 07/06/2014 3:38:19 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Jack Hydrazine

What a bunch of male bovine manure... liberals are easy to annoy...


44 posted on 07/06/2014 3:42:49 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

Being a penny-pincher, all I see is unburned carbon pouring out the stack. When I was in the coal burning business, we went to incredible lengths to make sure there was the absolute amount of unburned carbon in the fly ash. That’s the engineer in me.


45 posted on 07/06/2014 3:46:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
we went to incredible lengths to make sure there was the absolute amount of unburned carbon in the fly ash.

Which ends up going into the ground.

We are a carbon-based life form, dependent on the soil for our very existence. That includes lots of carbon.

A little more never hurts.

46 posted on 07/06/2014 3:56:37 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: BobL

If I made my chainsaw do that would it count?


47 posted on 07/06/2014 3:57:02 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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48 posted on 07/06/2014 3:58:54 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"This is pretty hard to believe. Sounds like the stuff of urban legend. Would somebody REALLY spend the money to do this?"

Think hot rods modified with tanks and plumbing to "shoot flames" out of the exhaust. Very popular with some of the "second childhood" set. I stopped by my local post office, and two guys (old farts about my age) had the hood up on a Chevelle 427 (obviously lovingly restored) with the mod.

49 posted on 07/06/2014 3:59:22 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Newly fledged NRA Life Member (after many years as an "annual renewal" sort))
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To: Jack Hydrazine

If it’s two-cycle, it’s probably doing that already...and it’s probably two-cycle.


50 posted on 07/06/2014 4:02:16 PM PDT by BobL
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"When I was in the coal burning business, we went to incredible lengths to make sure there was the absolute amount of unburned carbon in the fly ash."

Understood.

I don't see the point in this.

Smoking a liberal in a Prius will do little more than cement his hatred of bitter clingers with smoky pickups.

There must be a better way.

51 posted on 07/06/2014 4:10:21 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: Jack Hydrazine

COAL ROLLER GROUPS

Thread from a couple days ago if anyone is interested in the comments thereon:

52 posted on 07/06/2014 4:18:54 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport

I searched using that title and it didn’t come up. Maybe because it was truncated.


53 posted on 07/06/2014 4:21:38 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: deport
Fun comes in various categories.

The Steamers....


54 posted on 07/06/2014 4:25:35 PM PDT by deport
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I usually only use a unique word or maybe two when searching for titles.
I only knew about that thread as I’d posted a few pictures, etc. on it.
That was a couple days ago so different folks will see this one.


55 posted on 07/06/2014 4:27:37 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport

I’ll try that next time.


56 posted on 07/06/2014 4:28:49 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Textide

Laughing so hard I’m crying


57 posted on 07/06/2014 5:24:46 PM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: Sooth2222
How about when gays throw used condoms on church goers at a Catholic Mass, or have sex in public during gay pride events?

Guess it's OK to be obnoxious when you're liberal, illegal to do if you're "conservative".

BTW, it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of these Coal Rollers were found in West Virginia.

Lots of Democrats in that state.

And I'm sure they're pretty pissed at Obama over what he's done to the industry there.

58 posted on 07/06/2014 6:11:45 PM PDT by boop (I just wanted a President. But I got a rock.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Some people can only be pushed so far before they push back.


59 posted on 07/06/2014 6:28:13 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

maybe t’was a long train of abuses and usurptations or som’n like that...


60 posted on 07/06/2014 6:31:34 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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