About time!
What aren't they trying to fix that earlier regulations messed up?



https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/make-gas-cans-great-again-improving-flow

when I broke some old pour spouts my wife ordered a box of 5 of new ones off Amazon pretty cheap. came with 10 threaded parts 5 of 2 different thread pitches and were the old style gas can spouts . Also came with a drill bit and plastic insert that snap in to put in old school vent. It was party like it was 1999 all over again.

Motor cycle cans ar t.t gal and come with vent and plastic poor hose and were cheaper than a 5 gal can so I bought one of those and it's been nice.

For the boys lawn care I bout 2 5gal and 2 2.5 ga steel safty cans. 2 one big and one small for no alcohol gas for mower and 2 mix gas. painted the mixed cans yellow. Figured they put them in the van with my wife when I'm not home and they are safer for that. They take and use the small and to fill equipment and always have very more to top off the small can in the morning with from the big can.

So if you have the pain in the but non vent gas cans you can fix them with a click at Amazon. If you need new there are other options that work as well.


I don't expect the government to get anything that works as well as the old ones in their new design . Just becuese I have never seen the government do anything well.

Now some of my older cans are starting to split at the top along the seem creating it's own vent I guess.

I'm still using 25 year old containers with an open spout. The redesigns were a joke.

I found some universal open spout kits with lids and vents on internet and we’ve been using those for years. Best thing we did was throw those stupid safety fill spouts away and retrofitted all our cans with the free flow kits and valves.
Jim

Good development.

I have a good supply of older cans, metal and plastic. When I do buy new, first thing I do is get rid of the new design crap, add a regular pour spout and a vent (all readily available online).

The new design and CARB compliant cans are a perfect examples of, "We're from the government and we're here to help."

Harbor Freight sells a 5.5 gal can that is non CARB compliant with a vent hole....Not a official gas can, but it's red and works great.

CARB is a control move by environmentalist, and causes strong urges to dump gas on the ground out of spite, Lol.

Geez Id say

for 10-12 dollars you don't have to wait

https://ezpourspout.com/product/rigid-replacement-spout-vent-kit/

I like these new rigid ones even better than the flexible ones

1/2 inch drill bit to install the vent , they work great pour smooth

set up the vent so as you start pouring you can flick it open with your thumb

Haven't looked at all the new options. I went with the valve stem vents years ago when they outlawed vented cans and hadn't came out with the other options yet. Didn't take me long to figure out that rubber valve stems don't last in gas cans and switched to stainless valve stems and have never had a problem. Lots of people went to the five gallon cans with the big cap and hose on top (I think what you are calling motorcycle cans) because they were vented and apparently had paid someone off to get around the regs. But they were like 60 bucks back then. Later there were lots of other knockoff companies that made them much cheaper. But I had fifty gallons worth of gas cans I had vented myself and haven't went through them yet to need to buy more, I have went through all the old factory vented ones I used to have though. Plastic cans only last so long if you actually use them and haul them around in the weather.

Yep, I have a nice collection of the old galvanized red cans. Those new “improved “ plastic “safety cans” are a joke.
I pick up the older can at auctions or thrift shops, usually 5.00 to 6.00

My least favorite part of the “safety” designs, is they always seem to hold extra gas when I’m done pouring, and inevitably it spills somewhere I don’t want it to.

Nice !!

Probably pressure from trump to bring back common sense again

I see he got coke to run real sugar again....lol

I definitely have more cans than spouts I pulled the old spouts off of my kerosene jugs last year. They sell cheaply made replacement spouts for $10 but they are junk the sun eats them up pretty quickly UV dead.

This is what I use most of the time now. Works in almost any container - except you might have to pull that plastic screen out of the new ones. I dont have to hold the container in most cases while it empties. This thing will drain a five gallon container maybe quicker than you can pour it

any bets on whether or not a Harris administration would have gone there?

I know it's a little thing.

but Harris wouldn't have even CONSIDERED helping us even that much.

You really need to get a life.

^ LOL

Drill a hole in the back, away from the spout just big enough for a small valve stem with out the core. The stem cap will plug it up for transport.