[Dr. Sivana]

Unchanged for nearly 50 years.

Actually, I have been using a new design in the Great Lakes region for almost ten years. Blitz made a can with no second hole and a thumb push button that works really well . . . No unscrewing the cap.

I don't know if tht's part of a mandate, and a mandate s stupid anyway, but the Blitz design was a good one. Blitz, I understand went out of business a while ago.

[cableguymn]

yup.. I haul a lot of fuel for my boat.. (my back can’t handle the weight of a full 20 gallon tank any more) so I have become a hoarder of pre-2008 gas cans.. yard sales, thrift shops, the side of the road..

I grab them all..

I had a few EPA cans. first thing I did was drill out the valves and punch vent holes in them.

15 minutes to drop 5 gallons of gas in to a 20 gallon tank? hell no.

[Senator_Blutarski]

This is one of my pet peeves. I just remove the moving parts and guts of the new spouts and use a cork from the hardware store as a cap.

Meanwhile, I look for older gas cans at garage sales.

[Fido969]

I hate those &^%&*% cans. The stupid Rube Goldberg spouts make me spill gas all over the place.

[jimpick]

Yeh and then I had to spend 3 hours fishing the spout parts out of the tank. Great design. Love spending 15 minutes dumping 5 gallons into the tractor.

[jjotto]

The newest gas cans I’ve used have some kind of weird no-spill valve in the spout. I just take off the whole spout assembly and use a funnel.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

And if the cans don’t spill enough gas how much gets dumped on the ground because it goes bad so quickly? CARB should be jailed.

[headstamp 2]

Excellent cans though not cheap.

http://www.nospill.com/

I still have my old “Cott’s” with the vent holes though.

Add a vent hole like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6WZ9FrXPiE

[dasboot]

http://www.ruralking.com/ez-pour-replacement-spout-kit-10050.html?utm_medium=cse&utm_source=google&CAWELAID=1624225046&CAGPSPN=pla&catargetid=520009190000031013&cadevice=c&gclid=CN64-eyVnsACFQxp7AodFXUAkw

[anton]

CARB Compliant = Piece of Crap.

[yarddog]

I haven’t seen a “Jerry Can” in years. I simply use the cheap plastic ones and they work just fine.

I do make it a point of not keeping them in the house tho.

[Pollster1]

I have never seen a real person use one of those environmentally friendly spouts. Like every other person who does real work, I throw the useless spout on the ground and either pour into a funnel or just from can to tank. It spills more than the old cans did, but it’s FAR better than using the new spouts.

[headstamp 2]

Easy pour kit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSXvNgW6OEY

[cableguymn]

http://ezpourspout.com/wp/

my local hardware stores sell them.. while they can’t say it, and I shouldn’t.. they work on post 2009 cans too.

[Raycpa]

Found an old fashioned gas can at tag sale and scooped it up. Its great.

[SkyDancer]

And the morons who decided on the “safety” feature didn’t know that good ‘Ol Merican’ ingenuity would circumvent it???

[dinoparty]

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.

[LibWhacker]

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.

[golux]

Finally! Bump! #AfricanAmericanJusticeforGasCans

[arthurus]

In May I bought a gas can to carry gas to my scooter and noticed that the spout was a bit more complex than that to which I was accustomed and with far more instructions printed right there on the side. I found that there was no way that the spout could be installed, arranged, screwed on, or whatever that provided any path for gasoline to proceed from the can through the spout. It simply was incapable of passing gas. I tried to make it work. I wasted a lot of time before I dug out the funnel and took the damned spout off. I asked myself and several other people over the next few days why a gas can would be constructed with all that superstructure when a simple screw cap would accomplish everything that the technological marvel could accomplish with a lot less waste of time, and nothing more. The old spouts that leaked a couple of drops were useful.