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Posted on 08/18/2014 6:11:13 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
The lowly gas can. A staple in almost every garage in America, storing a little bit of gasoline for the lawn mower, weed whacker, snow blower, and chain saw. Unchanged for nearly 50 years.
Until now.
Thanks CARB and EPA.
Back in 2008 the California Air Resources Board had stomped out all the major sources of air pollution in California, so they turned their Sauron-like gaze upon the evil, fume-spewing, toxin-dripping gas can as the next target of their regulatory empire. They mandated new containers and spouts that would eliminate those noxious off-gasses that contribute to smog in the valleys, and also prevent any possibility of spilling gas onto the ground. Of course, we all know what happens when bureaucrats design a new device, right?
Yep, that's right. The new gas cans with CARB-compliant spouts require three hands (at a minimum) to operate, inevitably cause the user to spill far more gasoline with each refuel of a lawn mower than he managed to spill over the previous decade in total, and flows with the velocity of a mouse with a bad prostate. So, ingenious Californians that we are, we've resorted to throwing the useless spouts away and simply pouring the gasoline from the container into a funnel, thereby eliminating all spillage and at the same time releasing approximately ten times the amount of aromatic fumes as before CARB got involved in the man-machine relationship.
Thus having proven the wisdom of bureaucrat-designed gas cans, the Federal government then decided that they should adopt CARB's brilliant dictates and apply them across this fruited plain.
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actually no. see my earlier post.
Found an old fashioned gas can at tag sale and scooped it up. Its great.
And the morons who decided on the “safety” feature didn’t know that good ‘Ol Merican’ ingenuity would circumvent it???
Sort of off the top of my head on rumor about it.
I have a sore thumb because of these stupid things. It takes about 20 minutes to pour 5 gallons, and all the while you need to hold it just right with thumb pressing.
Sort of not labeling an egg product warning that the product contains eggs. Stupid should hurt. Including whatever jury went along with it.
That’s another thing you should stockpile for fun and profit in shtf scenarios: those old-fashioned mil spec heavyduty metal 5-gallon gas cans that were strapped on the outside of every military vehicle in existence, at least in the old days when I served. Seems they scare the faggots in Sacramento to death and were outlawed several years ago. Found out when I tried to order a couple of them online last year. Next thing you know they’re going to outlaw OD green. Damned wussies. Have to keep my eyes open next time I’m out of state.
They have an internal, throuh the spout vent and don't glug.
That explains why I can’t find a jerry-can at the surplus store any more..........
I was just checking and Sportsmans Guide sells Nato Surplus brand new Jerry Cans. The price is a bit high ($39) but they sound pretty nice.
Finally! Bump! #AfricanAmericanJusticeforGasCans
“....how much gets dumped on the ground because it goes bad so quickly?”
Right you are. You can’t keep Ethanol gasoline for very long. You have to use it up. I can’t help thinking it’s intentional to keep us from being prepared. We can’t fight back if they have all the energy, and the ammo.
I have a couple of gas cans (plastic) that had some EPA garbage spout. Dad modified it so it pours fast with no spill. The original one would spill and take forever to empty. (five gal)
It is not the original NATO spout and it leaks.
It does work better than that EPA crap that's being sold now, though.
I hate em too! It’s like they don’t WANT you to use Gas...
Sta-bil.
I use it in a 55 gal barrel with a hand pump.
At the start of the grass cut season, I use my credit card that gives me 15 cents per gallon off, fill up the barrel, add the right amount of Sta-bil (the cost of which is offset by CC discount), and I've had no problems from about the first of May to the middle of September.
55 gallons seems to be just the right amount for my 54 inch cut 26 HP Kohler, cutting nearly two acres of lawn.
Done that several years in a row and have yet to run out or have bad gas problems.
Well, I've had bad gas a time or two, but not from the treated barrel.
You guys are struggling too much. Buy the two handled plastic can, throw away the idiot spout and buy the cheap replacement flex nozzle at Walmart. It has a screw on cap, flex tube and two collars of different sizes for the blitz plastic cans. Even comes with the vent tube that requires a 3/8 “ hole to be drilled in the can. Press in the fitting and “blah” your done.
Me on the other hand...highly capable of passing gas.
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