[Drew68]

Thanks for letting me vent (no pun intended).

[Deplorable American1776]

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...

[HotHunt]

You're not stuck with those impossible spouts.

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.

[Lua Buom]

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.

[Sapwolf]

Try an electric car.

[Robert357]

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!

[jeffersondem]

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.

[right way right]

Hammer a nail into the right spot on top of that jug.
The nail is a plug for a vent.

I call em Obammy cans.
Just another symbol of a lousy era.

[bigbob]

I saw some nice cans in my neighbors recycling bin so I grabbed them and bought a couple replacement spouts and good to go.

[CFW]

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.

[Right Wing Assault]

Midwest makes a plastic can with a "internal flame mitigation device." The first I tried one, I had no idea the thing was in there. The station pump pushes the gas in faster than this plastic mesh thing can process it, so the gas comes flying back out! Didn't these people even test these things?? I pried the top of it loose and used my Vise-Grips to rip it out of any that had them.

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?"

[cquiggy]

EZ Pour spouts are incredible, especially the larger diesel ones. Don’t just buy off Amazon though. Go to the EZ Pour website and view all of their products. I met the owner of EZ Pour at the GIE Expo in Louisville,Ky last October and he is a brilliant guy with lots of products and more to come.

[BitWielder1]

The instruction said twist and push.
No matter how mush I TWISTED and PUSHED and TWISTED and PUSHED and SWORE and SWORE it delivered zero gas.
I could see how it was supposed to work but it didn't.
So I had to remove it and of course I spilled gas all over the place.
Reminds me of the Ralph Nader induced Car Key Release Hell in the 80's, when it took me half an hour to figure out how to get the @#$% car key out of my rental in the middle of the night.

[Major Matt Mason]

Here's one way to deal with cans you don't like.

[for-q-clinton]

Yep. I had to buy 2 new 5gallon cans today. And was like WTF...they are even worse now than they were 10 years ago. It’s like they keep trying to make it more useless than before.

[Rebelbase]

The first thing I did when I bought a new gas can a few years ago was to rip the spring guts out of the nozzle and cork it with a rubber test tube stopper.

[ElkGroveDan]

I was tossing stuff at the dump this week and there was an old classic jerry-can sitting at my feet in pretty good shape. Just needs a spout. I’m going to sand and paint it and wag my tail like a dog that found a bone.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I agree! I’ve spiled more gas all over my generator and everything else using these new fangeled spouts. I finally got so mad I took a hacksaw to the plastic spout, cut off the end, separated the red cover and spring and threw them away.

Now I have a hard nylon plastic spout that works! But no stopper. So I took a used 12 gauge shotgun shell, and put a hose clamp on it. It now fits over the spout perfectly.

[capydick]

I had the same problem when I got new cans prepping for Sandy. I take the tops off altogether and pour into a long neck funnel which keeps the spillage to a minimum.

[Vermont Lt]

Metal nato gas cans with a rubber spout. Just get extra gaskets.

[VeniVidiVici]

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.

Yup. They are safer for the environment because they don't spill or leak fumes. Your IQ must be below the 8th grade level determined by the government to be the minimum age to operate such a device.