Rolling Coal - VW puffer

[HaulingAss]

Even stranger that is happening in Seattle of all places haha.

There are a lot of angry people in Seattle. It didn't use to be like this.

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[Technigogo]

Rolling? I'd call it more of a fart

 

[Killlbox]

There are a lot of angry people in Seattle. It didn't use to be like this.

Yup, moved from Seattle to Cheyenne WY in early 2021. Haven’t missed The Peoples Republic of Seattle for even a second.

 

[meinnovations]

Yea burn that 5$ diesel. Suckers!

$7 in WA

 

[HaulingAss]

$7 in WA

No wonder they are pissed off by electric cars cruising down the highway for $0.05/mile! I bet they bought that VW diesel because they thought it would be cheap to fuel. Think again!

No wonder they only flip their coal switch on for a fraction of a second! At $7/gallon they are too cheap to roll coal!

 

[meinnovations]

This is the first time I’ve been fumigated by a car instead of a muscle truck. Kept doing it after I “saved” too.

Hmmm, I thought Puyallup was a native name, but maybe it's phonetic for pue all up? Or new Tacoma aroma?

 

[MisterChilidog]

We get too many yahoos every new semester who think coal rolling is OK. I wonder how many of them know over 30% of the professors have EVs? I often see trucks I know did coal rolling in the city impound lot.

Most states (I live in Utah, and it is the case here) have clean air laws in place, and everyday folks can file complaints of violations with as little as the license plate number of the offender. If there is sufficient evidence to warrant an investigation, the state clean air board can order an inspection, and if there is tampering, with emissions systems, discovered, fines and confiscation can be imposed.

My wife pointed this out to the Facebook Tesla owners group for Utah, and immediately received the predictable social media flaming. I was struck that people A) immediately assumed she and I were reporting coal rollers (we actually haven't) and B) they tried parallelling a clean air violation report with Nazis pitting neighbors against each other - which is backward, since rolling coal would be the Nazi attack on the neighbor; reporting the attack would be the Jew seeking protection by authorities.

The social media outrage over the mere suggestion that clean air reporting is on-the-table is concerning to me. When people are so politically pickled that they are defending violation of the law rather than applying peer pressure to stop violations, it's a disturbing sign that more bad things are likely coming, and there are a number of people out there who WANT IT to happen. To be clear, there's no suggestion here that anyone report to the clean air commission every vehicle that belches a puff of smoke - NO. But OBVIOUS "that cannot be legal" offenders should probably be called in for an emissions systems check; there's absolutely nothing unreasonable about that. And it's also not reasonable (or even rational) for people to be rolling coal on others - not for ANY reason - so why defend that?

Anyway, my state has a clean air commission that encourages reporting suspected violations of the clean air act. I would never bother reporting someone for towing a heavy load with a diesel (duh), or even accelerating hard and coughing up a couple bucks worth of fuel because of it. But when I see someone going out of their way, repeatedly, just to be an asshole to someone they know nothing about, beyond the car they're driving... yeah, I'm going to start reporting those. In part because they're working hard to earn it. But equally because of the horrible screeching my wife endured from irrational, dishonest and toxic haters online.

 

[L3it3R]

in Maryland it's an actual crime if done against someone else - an assault charge even, and if done against marginalized groups or protected classes can be ruled as a hate crime! And if they're just SEEN doing it, it's a $500 fine ... I've called in quite a few of these idiots over the years.

Screw those idiots

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