The California Compliant Gas Can

[pdub]

Today I surprised myself and got to feeling well enough to at least drive Junior the Riding Lawnmower. It's sort of like a road course in the yard. I can't walk very far without buckling and going OW, but I can at least sit down and drive.

But Junior needed some gas. I've got some, in that dadgum sorry who-invented-that California compliant plastic 2-gallon jug. With the fancy supposed-to-be spill-proof snout. which actually spills and leaks more than any other method. By now I've defeated all of that, I've torn the little ratchets off of it so I can at least take the snout off of it with bad hands at the gas station to fill it up. Today I didn't have enough good walking steps left in me to go all the way into the garage and get the really huge funnel, that wasn't worth it.

So I removed the snout and just commenced to pouring and aiming, poorly. I poured gas on the mower, the engine, the ground, all over the place, splashing. But I got some in the tank-hole. Some. So much for the environment.

[corvettedad]

I know what I'd like to do with that gas can and the inventor

[68scott385]

I know someone that also removes that finger-cutting triangle-pyramid thing that the ratchet teeth ride against. Names left out to protect the smart-enough to use the old-style gas can without spilling fuel everywhere and also smart enough to modify the new-style can so that it doesn't spill everywhere either or cut fingers while trying to use the darned thing.

[Shep48COE]

They sell kits on amazon to make them old school.

[DanStokes]

They sell kits on amazon to make them old school.

Good info - I'll check that out. My Diesel can is horrible to use and, of course, I have to use it frequently.

Dan

[STINEY]

Psst........buy “utility jugs”.

They come in appropriate colors, are fuel compatible - though not approved by some overreaching government agency - and are reasonably priced at Summit or Jets.

(I have 3 old style gas cans that I treasure.....and one yellow utility jug for the diesel.)

[Shep48COE]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00CYNDNM8?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

[cobra]

i have an old plastic jug. are all the new ones this california style you guys are talking about? can someone post a pic of what they look like? just curious. never heard of them before. i'm living in the woods here in florida.

[pdub]

i have an old plastic jug. are all the new ones this california style you guys are talking about? can someone post a pic of what they look like? just curious. never heard of them before. i'm living in the woods here in florida.

Next time at the store, look at the gas cans. That's all you can get now. A photo doesn't describe how screwed up it is. And even in your hand at the store you don't know how screwed up it is until you try to actually use it.

[Deaf Bob]

Standon your head, patting your belly whilst pouring...

[Red_Kitty]

can someone post a pic of what they look like? just curious. never heard of them before. i'm living in the woods here in florida.

[silver_bullet]

this is the next one I will buy if I ever feel the need to stupidly spend money

You literally fold the spout down to the gas tank and put you thumb on the trigger to allow fuel flow....

[oletrux4evr]

Am I the only one that gets tired of being forced to be 'California compliant'?

[pdub]

Am I the only one that gets tired of being forced to be 'California compliant'?

No.

[Loren]

Am I the only one that gets tired of being forced to be 'California compliant'?

No we get tired of it also. Things that help reduce smog, such as attempting to trade VOC's around between gas station tanks, car fuel tanks, and gas cans rather than just push them out into the air each time are OK with me, but the California Compliant Politics and financial tricks get to be a drag.