"Rolling Coal": Yes this is a thing. It's a stupid thing but it's a thing.

[Initech]

Forty-five second YouTube clips don’t come any more American than “Prius Repellent.” It starts with a camera angled from the passenger side window of a truck, pointed at the namesake Japanese hybrid car. After 12 establishing seconds, the cameraman moves and points out the back window, where viewers can read the ominous decals:

?PRIUS REPELLENT?

At 23 seconds, the engine revs and the viewer finally learns what the arrows were pointing at. Smoke pours out of dual stacks, right in the path of the Prius, which retreats into the rear view. The truck’s passengers share a well-earned chortle.

“Alright, enough!” says one of them.

“You got ’im!” says another.

“We got ’im!” says a co-conspirator.

“Prius Repellent” is a perfect introduction to one of the Obama era’s great conservative subcultures: the men and women who “roll coal.” For as little as $500, anyone with a diesel truck and a dream can install a smoke stack and the equipment that lets a driver “trick the engine” into needing more fuel. The result is a burst of black smoke that doubles as a political or cultural statement—a protest against the EPA, a ritual shaming of hybrid “rice burners,” and a stellar source of truck memes.

The “Prius repellent” decal is easy to find on truck fan sites, as are memes of single or double stack trucks humiliating the drivers of smaller cars. There are videos of “hot babes” getting rolled on, and a mega-popular video (more than 3 million views) of an annoying Prius driver complaining about diesel. “She makes me want to do a John Force style burn out right in front of her,” observed one critic on DieselBurners.com.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/07/rolling_coal_conservatives_who_show_their_annoyance_with_liberals_obama.html

They can enjoy the infectious lung diseases that come standard with "Prius Repellent".

[hlthe2b]

1. And, I post again... this is illegal in most states... CA and COlorado have websites to report

Here is the info for Colorado. NONE Of us should have to be at the mercy of these idiots and that exhaust is not merely noxious but could cause a wreck if the smoke obstructs the vision of drivers behind.

https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/sites/default/files/AP_MVE_Smoking-Vehicle-Notification_0.pdf

[Blue Owl]

2. Wow man those guys are so cool...

[CanonRay]

3. Just when you think stupidity has peaked...

I know you can't fix stupid, but what to do when it GROWS!

[Initech]

4. Why do I get the feeling that Info Wars is somehow responsible for this?

[femmocrat]

5. Oh please, don't anyone tell the locals!

WTH is wrong with these clods?

They are the same jerks who throw their beer cans along our rural roads.

[NickB79]

6. All that truck needs now is a pair of TruckNutz

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[Initech]

8. Can't unsee! Can't unsee!

[Nihil]

7. It's a somewhat polluting public information sign to other road users ...

"The occupants of this vehicle have a room temperature IQ."

Dumb shits.