Seems once again the news of soot and hybrids is on the minds of a few. And the reporter may not have heard the term correctly.
NEW JERSEY:
State Senate votes to ban 'coal rolling'
Published: Tuesday, December 2, 2014
The New Jersey Senate voted yesterday to ban a modification to diesel engines that critics said has been used to intimidate drivers of eco-friendly cars.
With the modification, cars with diesel engines are retrofitted with smokestacks that can release a plume of black smoke on demand, in a practice called "coal rolling."
Environmentalists said the practice has become a sort of protest to President Obama's Clean Power Plan and that diesel drivers will often "coal roll" by drivers of alternative-fuel vehicles, using the soot to block their views.
The bill would ban both the engine modifications and the practice of smoke blowing (Steve Strunsky, Newark Star-Ledger, Dec. 1). -- AW