DOJ sues eBay for selling ‘rolling coal’ devices; fines could hit $2 billion

It's a great way to convert money into carbon soot though.

It's only illegal if it's enforced, and the people who roll coal are the same types of people that would enforce the rules.

Also reduce their lung capacity by 75%

Not many federal emission police out there to enforce it.

Those vehicles should be impounded and converted into cubes on the spot by roaming hydraulic presses.

I was shafted by an Ebay seller who was nasty and awful. He acted like he was too stupid to understand why his item was not at all what I ordered. He had a 99.4% approval rating. I thought how the hell was that possible? I found out when I went to leave my negative rating and Ebay would not allow me to post the negative rating.

They should probably go after Amazon as well.

Because the government is bought and owned by the car industry (as well as 20 other industries) yaaay!

No, it's because of their fragile ego.

I'm fortunate enough to be able to walk to and from work every day. These "roll coal" bastards just hate me for it. I think it must really chap their assess to see little ol' me bopping down the street listening to my tunes and not needing an emotional support truck the way they do.

Time for the ol' "Roll coal if your dick is tiny" sticker

If it's any consolation, the fact that they are modifying their trucks which are already enormously over priced and gas suckers to suck even MORE gas when they do this to you should hopefully provide some sort of satisfaction to you. I typically point and laugh at them.

Running the diesel engine extra rich so it vomits extra sooty exhaust instead of properly burned, cleaner exhaust, because they feel the need to compensate for their small member by annoying everyone else.

why?

They see it as a "fuck you" to liberals/environmentalists.

Wait I thought people were just tampering to get higher performance or something, idk

Some folks are, but their goal is to not spew a bunch of black smoke because black smoke means incomplete combustion, which in turn means less power than they could've had if they'd managed to shove more air in.

"Rolling coal" is an entirely different thing based purely on idiocy and spite.

It looks tuff, bro!

The worst thing is the people who intentionally spew Priuses (back when they were the only semi-electric cars around) and bicycles with soot, as some sort of "fuck you for trying to not pollute, hur hur" thing.

Because it lets the world know how MAGA you are.

Those types of tuners also exist, and depending on the tune they can actually in some cases slightly improve fuel economy (depending on driving style). I tuned my Audi A3 to "Stage 1+" and actually have seen slightly better fuel economy doing highway driving to which I attribute the new ECU/TCU tunes allowing me to stay in gear longer during acceleration I guess?

A lot of germans disable their EGR-system to increase reliability.

The smoke is a symptom of over-fueling a diesel which does actually make more power, all else being equal.

1 in 100 are children who do it to "own the libs" the rest do it because it increases fuel efficiency and power.

Agreed. Nobody wants the eBay police, but sellers and buyers should be the ones held accountable.

You're responsible for what people on your platform do.

If someone sells cocaine on eBay does ebay get fined? How about illegal porn?

It's the sheer waste that gets me - not just the fuck you tiny dick bullshit of spewing your effluence onto people intentionally, no, they need to waste fucking shittons of petrol or diesel to do it MEANWHILE THE WORLD IS FUCKING BURNING. The fucking amazon dried up, what more evidence do they need?

Of course, if evidence swayed them, if they had half a fucking brain they'd never try this shit in the first place. But you know what's worse than the stupids running the planet into meltdown?

The rest of us let them. Even wildly stupid bullshit like this.

The libs are owned by my blue flag!!

Fun fact. My workplace added recycle bins to the breakroom a few years ago. The day after, HR had to call a facility-wide emergency meeting to explain that their use was voluntary only and that no workers would be required to use them.

Grown ass adults lost their shit because they saw a recycle bin.

Seems like the entire Western world is dealing with a rise in anti-social behaviour on the roads since the pandemic started.

Could have been worse. A 16 year old here in Texas ran over 6 cyclists while trying to roll coal on them. 2 had to be airlifted:

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/waller-bicyclists-hit-truck-teen-driver-ironman-16490862.php

four of the six cyclists who were hit were hospitalized. Two of those had to be airlifted because of the severity of their injuries.The update:

https://www.bicycling.com/news/a37808647/texas-driver-assaults-six-cyclists/

A 16-year-old truck driver ran over six cyclists out on a training ride on September 25, in Waller County, Texas.

The driver was attempting to “roll coal” on the cyclists when he hit them, according to witnesses.

The driver was finally arrested on November 8 and indicted with six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which is a second-degree felony.

Edit: the last update from the Law Firm representing the cyclists:

https://www.bikelaw.com/2021/11/felony-charges-for-waller-driver/

Yup. Montana drivers will hunt down cyclists and run them over, if not roll coll on them until they choke and fall over. Love this place!

Shit like this is the reason why I ditched the bike and got a car. The infrastructure is woefully inadequate for biking; more often than not you have to share the road with these idiots instead of having your own dedicated lane. Furthermore, I had way too many near death experiences. I never want to ride a bike in the US ever again.

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It's also used to assault cyclists for the crime of existing

To look like you're an impressive person with a big, strong truck that is so powerful it can't help but not spew lung-destroying emissions. They're just cosplaying truckers.

i’d probably read the sometimes as applying to environmental protest rather than the practice… as in there are other forms of environmental protests, and this is one that is sometimes used

the emission systems reduce the power and fuel efficiency. removing or bypassing emission systems means they burn less fuel and get more power.

People who drive those stupid fucking lifted trucks from the thumbnail regardless of whether or not they rolled coal will probably be next in line.

Can you imagine the CIA hunting down climate terrorists the same way Mossad hunts down Nazis in South America?

You just described the modern conservative:

Impressively stupid and dangerous.

Having lived in a handful of states, I've only seen it in one of them: Virginia. I suspect it's more of an Appalachian or southern thing in general, however.

SPAM and robocalls?

Send it to your local PTA. might be more effective.

You sound like a terrible person.

Just out of curiosity, what makes you not care about the climate? Is it some sort of fatalistic "we got 20 good years left, so might as well enjoy them" kinda deal?

as a gay man, not as far as i’m aware

and if you’re trying to make a joke because the people that do this are likely homophobes and would hate to be associated with gay sex, i’d ask please don’t… that, in itself, is unintentionally homophobic because it implies gay sex is derogatory

That's pushing coal.