They think it’s funny.”Depending on whom you ask, rolling coal is a juvenile prank, a health hazard, a stand against rampant environmentalism, a brazen show of American freedom. And while official tallies of coal rolling do not exist, there are signs that smoke, whether from intentional belching or not, is a growing public nuisance. “It’s exuberant adolescent testosterone.”PhotoBut to diesel owners like Corey Blue of Roanoke, Ill., the very efforts to ban coal rolling represent the worst of government overreach and environmental activism. The Birth of Rolling CoalRolling coal has origins in truck pulls, in which pickups compete to pull a heavy sled the farthest. completed new truck emissions standards this month, it emphasized that it did not intend to go after trucks used in motor sports.

Source: New York Times September 04, 2016 22:29 UTC