Blitz is done.

[BBR]

Freakin' ridiculous. A US manufacturing company goes under because people pour gas on fires.

http://www.joplinglobe.com/topstories/x318752172/Blitz-USA-manufacturing-plant-in-Miami-to-close-in-July

[SuperBuickGuy]

"there will be a severe shortage of gas cans"..... okay, so if competition is not forcing them to keep their prices the same, why is it they blame litigation for closing their doors? why not raise your prices and keep manufacturing? oh wait, blame someone else for your own inability to compete.... it's the American way

[tardis454]

Glad I find gas cans in junk cars daily, looks like I'll be keepin every one I find now...

[BBR]

I doubt they could raise prices high enough to deal with the results of the litigation, etc AND maintain market share. They deal with big box stores and probably are tightly nailed down on price flexibility.

[STINEY]

That's the trouble with being at the top of market share...........you are the target for EVERYONE. Competition, lawyers, etc.

[milner351]

Really?

The company that makes the container is responsible for the idiot that uses the container to pour gasoline on an open flame?

Sort of the "spoons make rosy fat" argument aint it?

[dieselgeek]

"there will be a severe shortage of gas cans"..... okay, so if competition is not forcing them to keep their prices the same, why is it they blame litigation for closing their doors? why not raise your prices and keep manufacturing? oh wait, blame someone else for your own inability to compete.... it's the American way

They're far from being the only company who is saying "screw it" because of litigious bullshit. A few of them are hitting even closer to home.

[Loren]

"there will be a severe shortage of gas cans"..... okay, so if competition is not forcing them to keep their prices the same, why is it they blame litigation for closing their doors? why not raise your prices and keep manufacturing? oh wait, blame someone else for your own inability to compete.... it's the American way

Prices on plastic gas cans are already extremely high for what the product is...to the point that we avoid buying them at all (i.e. the cost of the product is not commensurate with it's usefulness). Raising the prices more, to the point where the company could become healthy and actually have money in the bank, will only bring more litigation as the crowd rushes in to get a piece of it. That circle will never end but this way, there ain't no money therefore, won't be anybody after it.

There really isn't any competition as no one else wants to be in that rotten business. To buy a gas can in this town that isn't a Blitz, you spend thirty bucks for a chunk of yellowish plastic that conforms to NO environmental or safety regulations and is specifically "labeled" as NOT for combustible materials use. That is the only way to sell a gas can these days and even they're playing a risky game.

[TC]

Don't worry Harbor Freight has got you covered.... $17 for a 5 gallon fuel container..........

[studemax]

This is the fault of lawyers who make stupid laws, and who then make money from lawsuits that resulted from their stupid laws.

Bill Shakespeare was right.

[Loren]

Don't worry Harbor Freight has got you covered.... $17 for a 5 gallon fuel container..........

Yeah it's tough to sue China. Once they've got the container on the boat, they're done with it. It's kinda a special deal we give them so that they can have a manufacturing industry and we can't. Hope they'll continue to sell to our army when things get dicey between us.

[milner351]

what happened to judges with enough backbone to throw cases like this out of court?

[tardis454]

what happened to judges with enough backbone to throw cases like this out of court?

Them heavy wallets they carry around broke their back..

[Russell]

This is the fault of lawyers who make stupid laws, and who then make money from lawsuits that resulted from their stupid laws.

Bill Shakespeare was right.

Sounds like a gas can would fix this problem.

[SuperBuickGuy]

This is the fault of lawyers who make stupid laws, and who then make money from lawsuits that resulted from their stupid laws.

Bill Shakespeare was right.

Prove the first sentence - and I know you can't. Laws are the result of people crying to the media that "someone should do something"

As for what mr. shakespear said... it's funny how you don't know the first line of that statement. Maybe you can sue your teacher for not teaching you?
"the first act of a despot is to kill all the lawyers"

but when do facts, ever, have anything to do with your bile-filled posts?