Vented Gas Cans Illegal

The epa banned normal gas cans in 2009 following the pioneers at the california air resources board which intones.

Vented gas cans illegal.

No gas cans available for sale anymore have vents on the opposite top side either so when trying to pour you get a sloshing heaving mess burping gasoline eruptions leaking from the complex yet flimsy spout that easily breaks. It isn t a secret. So for the last three years you have not been able to buy gas cans that work properly. The portable fuel container pfc regulations are an important concept in our efforts to improve california s air quality.

They have much better bottles tall and round with very long nozzles and no safety features at all. The new style gas cans are terrible fragile contraptions that have caused many a spills and are responsible for numerous new curse words b. We still have some of the old now illegal gas cans. The top has to close automatically.

And don t tell me about spillage. Pfcs also known as gas cans. It abolished them de facto with new standards that every state had to adopt by 2009. The company that made them was forced into bankruptcy by lawsuits from stupid people.

They are not permitted to have a separate vent. They are not permitted to have a separate vent. The consumer plastic gas can industry trade association the portable fuel container manufacturers association estimates that there are between 120 million and 150 million plastic gas cans in. So for the last ten years you have not been able to buy gas cans that work properly.

The top has to close automatically. There are other silly things now too but the biggest problem is that they do not do well what cans are supposed to do. Next time buy a gas can from a motorcycle shop.