It’s lawyers.
People blew themselves up when pouring gasoline on open fires.
That caused 2 things to happen:
1. Liability insurance through the roof - figured per can. Each idiot that blows himself up in a terrifying, horrifying and painful way will leave his family a tidy little nest egg courtesy of Ambulance-Chasing Charlie. Twice as much if they do it at a holiday picnic with the entire extended family there to watch the live screaming immolation.
2. The attempt to address this resulted in can openings where the gas couldn’t just be all dumped out in a few seconds. Idiots can still splash some gas on themselves, and set themselves on fire, but it’s not the napalm-like fireball when they suddenly and unexpectedly were blowing up a whole can at a time.
Stay safe!
have you tried to open your little bottle of pills lately?
have you tried to open your little bottle of pills lately? the govt has dictated pills to be impossible to open, too, just like your gas can ? ha!
Years ago when I heard about the new gas can requirements I started buying the old style cans at garage sales. I probably have more than I need, but at least my kids will inherit something useful when I die.
They will also inherit several large boxes of 100W and 75W incandescent light bulbs. (And other good stuff.)
the gas can companies got sued out of business by Lawyers representing drunks and crackheads pouring gas on fire pits while standing in the middle of it.
I found 2 of the old style Gott gas cans at the County’s annual Household Waste Disposal dropoff. Got way to find things that you can re-purpose and the County Coordinators love the fact that you are keeping products out of the waste stream. One year 3 old 5 gallon Jerry Cans can in. They were the kind that all metal flex sprout can be flipped around and stored inside can. I left an hour too early, but 8 people pulled for the 3 longest coffee straws.
Hear, hear!
How about toilets that send turds packing on one flush?
Totally agree about the garbage gas cans that were mandated on us all because idiots kept burning themselves up with simple gas cans.
I use VP 5 gal cans, about the best money can buy, little expensive but headache free, works for me.
I have 10-12 old style 5 gallon plastic cans I bought at garage sales for .50 -1.00 each. Seniors selling their stuff to move into condos or assisted living.
I use them for old oil or antifreeze storage until it goes to the recycler or new gas.
One time my wife picked up one with used antifreeze and filled up the zero turn. Afternoon spent draining and flushing the system.
Remove nozzle from gas can.
Insert funnel to tank being filled.
Carefully pour gas from can into funnel being sure to stop before overfill of tank.
EZ PZ
[Blame Lieyahs, Esq.]
The insanity of these new gas cans is beyond insanity. If I use them as designed I spill far more gasoline as in the past. I modify them to be easy to use. They now spill more gas than the original cans from years ago, but much less than the new and wonderful cans from the EPA.
The engineers who designed these things obviously never had to use them.
I have a rotopax, and it’s so archaic that instead of using the spout I just slosh the gas into whatever contraption is needed. Jup, gas goes spilling everywhere...
I never realized it was bureaucrats behind it, but makes sense now.
the old red polyethylene gas “cans” with the original spouts that actually can pour gas without spilling it are worth their weight in gold ... i treasure mine and baby them ...
Forgot to mention what I like best about the VP gas cans, it takes 33 seconds to empty a five gallon can, very nice when filling the sleds outside when it’s 10 below.
I have spilled more gasoline in the past years since the inception of these ‘California style gas cans’ than I did in the 45 years before. These cans are horrible. I have two that do not work anymore, one five gallon can and one 2 and 1/2 gallon can. I hope conservative politicans see this post and others. We need to revert to the old fashioned ones with a funnel. I spilled almost zero gas over the 45 years before these new cans.
I have heard that in california if one is caught driving with an old metal 5 gallon jerry can that the fine is $5000/can, full or empty...
It’s like those low flush toilets. Now we have to flush 3-4 times, using even more water than before.