The death of 7 million people from all around the world, is apart of a problem that is being repressed. Many people often blame small factors that respectively do not contribute in a large way. Often
Figure 1- “Coal Rollers” at a racetrack competition.
Amongst many of the things America and the community happen to displace their concerns on, they are targeting a small group truck drivers call “coal rollers”. Coal rolling is the act of altering a diesel engine to allow more fuel to enter the engine and produce a dense large cloud of exhaust (shown in figure 1), this can also be done by installing certain computer software or computer chips to the truck's main computer. Drivers that engage in this will often either do it on the street or at
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Which brings up the group of “coal rollers” who do so as a movement or to offend people. These drivers are already a very small group of people in a minuscule collection within the world. The amount of people who engage in the deliberate act of blowing soot in the proximity of other human beings is very small. Wyler says “As for the politics of rolling coal, it’s not hard to find a pickup truck driver who doesn’t like Obama”, “But diesel drivers who roll coal do so primarily as a sport, limiting the practice to racetracks and truck shows, not as some kind of fuck-you to the nanny state”(Wyler). Some of the population that engage in coal rolling are often newcomers that have recently gotten their diesel truck, they are not rolling coal as a form of protest or politics. They are doing it mainly for just enjoyment. Wyler uses a quote from Erik Lawson, an owner of Coal Roll’n Diesel, “I know the people who do this are not doing this for some kind of political protest—they’re doing it because it’s something cool,” Lawson said. “A kid gets his new diesel and he thinks that it's the greatest thing in the world, the fact that he can roll coal. He's thinking, This is cool, a truck that actually does