The Constitution gives the feds no sweeping authority to regulate the environment.
The environment is a states' issue.
Are people with old cans in violation of the law and facing a federal charge for using one at a gas station?
Are people at risk of a federal “trafficking” charge for selling an old gas can from paw paw’s garage and yard sale?
Signed.
I think the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is the source of the Regis that brought about the vaporless nozzles and gas cans.
Me.. I just use water jug nozzles that I get off eBay. They even come with vent plugs.
I spill so much more gas with the new design than I ever did with the old ones it’s not even close.
And it takes five to ten times as long to pour a gallon, so how many fumes escape in comparison to the old ones.
The whole thing is nonsense.
I never did figure out how they’re supposed to work, since I spill half of the gasoline on the ground. Fortunately my gasoline doesn’t evaporate, so I have time to call a clean-up company and not destroy the environment...but it is not cheap to clean up.
Oh well, I guess they know what they’re doing. LOL.
Thankfully, I have a lifetime supply of the old ones around...
These things are a perfect example of what happens when some do goody bureaucrat who has no experience with gas cans or anything else pertaining to real life decides he’s going to save the environment through government regulation
Is this the man who will bring down Trump’s plan to get rid of unwanted gas nozzles?
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Eric Schneiderman
@AGSchneiderman
#BREAKING: I’m leading 8 AGs against Scott Pruitt’s absurd plan to have the @EPA limit the science it uses to make decisions about our public health and our environment.
2:32 PM May 7, 2018
https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/status/993559224792862721
Drat! I was hoping the title meant the silly regs had been repealed. The “fix” is, as noted by many above, worse than the problem! Typical gov’t “accomplishment”.
You have to wonder how much gas has been spilled, and how many fires have been caused, by this horrible government-mandated design. It just does not work.
You can drill a hole and put a tubeless tire valve stem in your gas can. Then you just unscrew the valve stem cap to vent. Pretty slick.
I also have several where I drilled a hole and use a screw to plug them..fill my riding lawnmower up in no time flat instead of playing the “tipping game” with the can to replenish the air every few ounces....
Honestly, when I bought my gas can three years ago I hated the damn thing. But dang it, the thing works great. No spills. Easy to use.
I got one of these cans, the 2.5 gallon size, for my little outboard motor. I like it.
Me too except that in screwing with the spout I inadvertently broke something and it now works great
Ez-pour
They make direct replacement caps, vents, poor spouts for north fine and course thread cans. Cheap solution.
Ezpourspout.com
From an earlier thread:
I also have 5 (5 gallon) plastic gas cans with the old spouts.
I bought cans and or spouts online. Sometimes throwing away smaller cans just to get the spouts.
They are safe, easy to use, and eliminated the troublesome separate vent.
Banning these spouts (STUPID idea) put one of the biggest gas can manufacturers out of business.
This idea was a solution looking for a problem. They couldn’t find a problem, but that didn’t stop them from implementing their solution anyway.
See examples here: I’m not selling these, just using the photos for you to see.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Blitz-Gas-Can-Spout-with-Yellow-Cap-NEW-/323244071774
First off, these damn containers are not spill proof; in fact, they are just the opposite. You can’t fill a chainsaw without dumping gas. Milk jugs are actually better and safer.