*&*$## EPA "safety" gas cans

Effing spill more gas with this damn thing every time I fill a small engine than I ever did with the old style.

Please bring this style back ASAP so I stop spilling $3.50 per gallon gas.

I agree.

Plus +100000.

Is there anywhere I can buy the old spouts?

Grtechguy wrote: Please bring this style back ASAP so I stop polluting the environment with $3.50 per gallon gas.

FTFY to point out the ludicrousness of these cans.

Grtechguy wrote: Is there anywhere I can buy the old spouts?

Ontario

Probably not too expensive to mail . . .

The EPA killed the classic Jerrycan too!

I hate those gas cans too. You can stick the spout of the can inside the tank of whatever you are filling, and still shoot gas a foot in the air outside of the tank.

I don't seem to have a problem.

Meh.

While we're at it, bring back vents on gas cans, too!

Z31 You must have a special touch that surely was a gift from god.

Grtechguy wrote: Is there anywhere I can buy the old spouts?

Garage Sales.

ebay. but expect 15/ea

alex wrote: While we're at it, bring back vents on gas cans, too!

aren't vents easy to make?

Buy these. Add hose.

yep, poke around garage sales for cans.

I borrowed my dad's chainsaw a few months back, and he loaned me one of the new gas cans with it, not knowing I hate them and that I had another old gas can. It had a gallon of premix in it when he loaned it to me, and it had a gallon of premix when I gave it back. Granted the gas probably went bad in the 6 months I had it, but I really didn't feel like bothering with it.

I see the old cans in the trash more often than I have in the past. I pick them out whenever I see them. A lot of people around here keep brand new cans in their cars and toss them when they use them once. This is one of the random zombie apocalypse things I'm prepared for.

Woody wrote: Buy these. Add hose.

This for the win.

The only thing I do with the fancy can I have is transport used oil to the recycle center.

the vent free cans work great when you drill a hole in the top of them

FWIW, it's not from an EPA mandate- they dont deal with safety. Probably the insurance lobby.

I HAD to buy one of the new cans once, when I ran out of gas along I-40. It's amazing that the EPA allows this design to be sold since it ALWAYS causes you to spill gas. What's the point of removing the vent (yeah, no air pollution) when the result is soil pollution.

Incredibly, the small one I bought allows you to fill it with next to no gas...and what you do get into it you wind up either spilling some or not evacuating the can completely.

You can get hoses that fit on the end of the new cans. They help.

the caps and spouts from my old cans don't fit on the crappy new one i had to buy a couple of years ago when i needed to drain a 15 gallon gas tank and only had 12 gallons worth of cans. why do fuel pumps always die when the tank is full? anyways, the new can looks almost identical to the old one except for the lack of a vent and the threads are different.

I have one can with the old spout. I bought two new style.I use the old spout on all the cans for refulling. I have been thinking about a better way. Havent come up with it yet.

nicksta43 wrote: Z31 You must have a special touch that surely was a gift from god.

I doubt that, I've just never had a problem