Remember that really irritating guy with the "Thumper speakers" playing cop killa rap at the stop light with his windows down.. who knocked your fillings loose? That is what the "Roll Coal" switch is for.... well.. that and the 12 gage hanging in the rear window.. just in case..
"The closer I get to civilization, the farther I want to be away from it" Grant... On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Brunhilde (79 300TD) got reported to the Texas environazis by some citizen > environazi for "excessive smoke." They sent me a letter telling me to do > something, I forget what. I called them up and said, yeah, she smokes, > she's an old diesel, and the guy just laughed and said OK. > > --R > > > On 12/2/14 2:55 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote: > >> Careful there Andrew. >> Some of these Prius driving tree huggers may call in your plate number >> when you drive by in your old MB diesel and you will have a visit from the >> enforcement folks. >> >> RB >> >> On 02/12/2014 1:51 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: >> >>> Anybody heard of or seen this abomination in action? >>> >>> >>> "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* >>> <http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/12/coal_ >>> rolling_ban_approved_by_state_senate.html#incart_river>, >>> Dec. 1)" >>> _______________________________________ >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those >> individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has >> no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. >> >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
