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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The new cans certainly “suck” but they don’t pour.
careful there. they sell many cheap, chinese knockoffs,too.
I throw the CARB spouts away and order these replacements which also include the vent. A little over $10.
Nope, they were sued out of existence, as noted by a poster earlier in the thread. They were a significant employer in their town in NE OK and a bunch of people lost their jobs. Another manufacturer has bought the assets and started operations but it’ll take them a while to scale the ramparts at Wal-Mart to get the same kind of market penetration that Blitz did.
I used to buy a lot of stuff there but I got 3 binoculars in a row which were defective. After I sent the last one back I told them to take my name off their club list and quit sending catalogs.
Well they took my name off but kept sending the catalogs.
The Nato surplus sound like they would be OK since they are brand new.
“You can’t keep Ethanol gasoline for very long.”
I buy all my gas ethanol free now.
Use this app to find. Stations that sell http://pure-gas.org
I bought a bunch of the EZPour replacement spouts for all my gas cans. It’s funny they don’t mention gas, gasoline or anything related to it on the packaging. They are made for “older style cans” is all they say on the packaging. They don’t how any “red” cans on the packaging either. Pretty funny.
how = show
Bttt.
The more they ,government, improve the pour spout ,the more it leaks on the engine.
One can still get Regular leaded Gas but Ya gotta look for it. My Brother has a place a few miles from the house and that's what He runs in the Boat, I got a place in Old Downtown that sells it.
I went down to my friendly big box store, picked out the can. Then the young redneck working the department kindly took the spout and with his bare hands, ripped the guts out of that useless CARB-compliant spout. Now it works just fine.
Actually, I’d like to see the California (and children states of Oregon/Washington) environmentalist explain on why there are catastrophic droughts, water shortages and continual wildfires since they have ramped up their environmental rules and regulations. The last 20 - 30 years of these rules and regulations have changed the West coast climate detrimentally. Before they had these rules and regulations they didn’t have all these catastrophes.
Some dirtbag lawyer sued Blitz out of business.
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I hate those &^%&*% cans. The stupid Rube Goldberg spouts make me spill gas all over the place.
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They’re pretty bad ... The thing that burns me is the “deadman” kill bar/switch that was mandated ... I always use a ball bungee so I don’t have to restart after I leave the mower for a second to move some debris..
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