Posted on 09/05/2019 3:19:54 PM PDT by Drew68
WHY DOES A FIVE GALLON GAS CAN COST $20?
WHY DOES IT TAKE THREE ARMS TO USE AND YET I STILL SPILL GAS ALL OVER THE PLACE?
WHAT THE F*** IS THIS RIDICULOUS ENGINEERING OBAMANATION OF A CONTRAPTION AND WHY CAN'T I HAVE A NORMAL GAS CAN WITH A NORMAL SPOUT?!?!?!?!
Prepping for a bad storm, I picked up another four five gallon gas cans to top off for my generator and low and behold, WTF are these nightmares? I spilled gas all over myself, all over the generator and all because some environmentalist dickhead managed to convince someone that gas fumes were killing the planet so, low and behold, here's what we're stuck with.
I blame Obama.
President Trump, I implore you! Do you want to win strong in 2020! Give us normal gas cans again!!!
This is like some of the idiotic liquid detergent dispensers you see now. You need 3 hands to operate them.
It’s like those low flush toilets. Now we have to flush 3-4 times, using even more water than before.
I just bought a new shower head that flows 7.5 gallons per minute, worth every penny over those garbage 1.5 gal per min.
So true...it is supposed to be safer in the event of a fire. The gas can won’t spill gas if it gets tipped over...
Go online and find some simple flexible spouts to replace them with.
I buy them ten at a time because I have lots of gas cans for my farm vehicles. You can buy some air holes with an attached plug to allow air into the can to make easy to pour.
I haven't used the store bought spouts for a decade or so.
I’m thinking $15 does not get you a gasoline safe pump, but I will look.
Brought to to you by the same people who want to run health care. The story is that California mandated it and the EPA followed suit. Old cans now bring a premium and you can still find functional cans and spouts in Canada. 5 gal Jerry cans are also available.
We get ours in Canada.
Even though the country is run by cat ladies and poofters, they all have snow blowers and need adequate gas cans.
Try an electric car.
I hope that you now have a better appreciation of how Codes and Standards operate in the Nanny State.
You have to understand that there are a lot of agencies that feel they should regulate a gas can.
You have gas cans on commercial vehicles (Dept of Transportation) or commercial work sites that OSHA and other agencies feel that they should have say over their safety.
https://simplifiedsafety.com/blog/does-your-gas-can-meet-osha-requirements/
If you are a business owner and have the wrong gas can, the fines can be huge if something goes wrong.
Then again, you have fire marshals, consumer protection agencies that have different priorities. Part of the “problem” is that they don’t want fuel vapors to vent to the atmosphere. Another part is that they don’t want fuel cans to tip over and spill all over everything (they want the tipped over can to not spill). They want to keep little kids from being able to use the fuel can.
There are lots and lots of conflicting requirements. The “engineered” fuel can is not “just designed” to hold and dispense fuel, it is designed for many other functions and that is where the problem comes in.
“....As of January of 2009, all new portable fuel containers in the US must meet new Mobile Source Air Toxic regulations based on the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) regulations, and they must meet the requirements of the Children’s Gasoline Burn Prevention Act. .....”
https://www.gad.net/Blog/2012/11/22/one-mans-quest-for-gas-cans-that-dont-suck/
P.S. the color of the can is also important as it indicates the contents. Don’t put diesel in a red gas can!
The Wavian NATO cans are good. Get the metal spout. You can get a four pack for much less than $80.00 each.
The US military does not use these cans. We still use the the old fashioned jerry can with a round threaded inlet. Those are not available for sale to the public.
I would love to talk to the person that invented the worthless spout.
And I’d love to talk to the inventor’s boss who reviewed the design and decided “this is a great idea.”
Unbelievable.
Around our house, we call them Algore toilets.
I call em Obammy cans.
Just another symbol of a lousy era.
I saw some nice cans in my neighbors recycling bin so I grabbed them and bought a couple replacement spouts and good to go.
Now that’s funny!
I guess the guy who thinks the DC bureaucrats will leave us alone to go back to the way things were is a Crazy Eddie?
I’m posting before reading everyone else’s response. But, let me tell you that the “government approved safe gas” cans or about the most dangerous things you can buy for dispersing gas from one container to another. Gas and gas fumes go every where. It’s obvious that who ever invented this things has never poured gas from one container to another. You can order online new replacement spouts that do the job properly.
Buy the metal/segmented bendable spouts (the plastic ones break, I bought a foot of 1” ID viton hose, cut in half to fix the two I had) and a set of gaskets. While the lining handles additives just fine, the seals are NOT viton and break down pretty fast, I’ve replaced all of them in the time I’ve owned them.
I THINK there are other companies selling these under different brand names. Scepter, others. But these have served me well.
Oh, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve filled them up, put ‘em in the back of my truck thinking they were tied/bungee’d and they’ve fallen over en route to home.
They don’t leak.
The polyethylene ones? Like a sieve. Fuel evaporates through the “seals” on them, too.
Also, why would some of these companies put a curved single handle mostly on the top? Again, have these companies tried to lift it up and pour it into a gas tank?
It's like, "Who can design the most ridiculous can?"
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