I first caught wind of this when a couple of friends showed me the Jalopnik article. A couple hours later a coworker forwarded me
this article. Sadly, he incorrectly assumed that because I have a performance diesel (not that I'm saying that Faghorn-esque trucks are necessarily performance...) that I love to go out and roll coal.
Granted, I am by all accounts squarely in the target audience for coal rollers (mid 20s, conservative, male, etc.). I make it a point to ensure that my truck smokes as little as possible. Every puff of smoke out the tailpipe is wasted money and just reinforces the idea that all diesel owners love to "roll coal". There is absolutely no reason that diesels can't make power while leaving a clean stream of exhaust behind them. Don't get me wrong, though. What people do on race tracks or private land is perfectly acceptable. Diesel owners need to just keep that crap off public roads where 90% of the negative exposure is coming from.
:bdh:
As is typical for the media, they seem to only talk to the people that reinforce their propaganda. They don't want to hear from the other side of the diesel world because it would be counter to their agenda.
After all the
hyped up lies that directly influenced the DPF, I'm scared to see where the "anti-rolling-coal" legislation will take diesels. Hopefully more people will do what Steve did. We need to be just as vocal against rolling coal as the proponents are for it. We need to show the media (and by extension the general public) that not all diesel enthusiasts go out there with no other purpose than blacking out several intersections.