Coal rollers modify their big diesel-powered pickup trucks to spew huge clouds of black smoke on unsuspecting victims at the push of a button. In my state of Montana (United States), their favorite targets are electric vehicles, bicyclists, and pedestrians, as well as protestors opposed to Donald Trump’s policies. Obviously, coal rollers commit a kind of chemical assault that should be illegal. But by giving us an embodied and literal taste of toxic realities that are obscured in our everyday lives, the coal rollers might ironically inspire more effective individual and political actions to end our addiction to hydrocarbon fuels.
Timothy J. LeCain (Tue,) studied this question.