Because if you do you will be forced to use the new ' environmentally sound ' gas cans.
I was gonna say the inventor and/or politicians that mandated this bullshit should be dragged to the street and shot through the skull, ya know, ATG style. But, I'm covered in gas, there is a half gallon on the floor and this old koot said it better;
I was gonna say the inventor and/or politicians that mandated this bullshit should be dragged to the street and shot through the skull, ya know, ATG style. But, I'm covered in gas, there is a half gallon on the floor and this old koot said it better;
May I suggest that the shit-for-brains that mandated this actually try to put gas in their car. Then light a match.I DETEST the new five-gallon gasoline container spouts.
Each spout has a push-it-back sleeve on the outside, and a lip on that sleeve. The idea is that you hoist up the can, hook the lip onto the bottom edge of the gas tank you are attempting to fill, then push against the bottom of the can. The idea is that the sleeve slides back, exposing holes that (1) allow gasoline to pour into the tank, and (2) allow air to vent into the tank, equalizing the pressure and keeping the gasoline flowing.
Hogwash. More hogwash.
The idiot(s) who decided that these tops ought to be used on five-gallon cans of gasoline should be fired. If they are elected officials, impeach them.
The spouts do not work as advertised.
They CAN work as advertised.
But more often than not, I spill enough gasoline to create more fumes than ever escaped when I used the old-style containers with the take-it-off caps and the vent buttons at the other side of the can's top.
One of our mowers has a gas tank with a semi-flexible opening. So when one pushes down on the can, the spout disengages abruptly as the rim bends, spilling gasoline onto the ground and onto my clothing.
My shoulders and elbows are arthritic. Hoisting a five-gallon gasoline container is now tricky business. It can be done, but precision balancing, never my forte, is darn near impossible.
Yes, vapor emissions from gasoline cans pose environmental problems. They also are bad for us, and for our equipment. We all know that gasoline degrades over time, gets gummy, and mungs up our engines' carburetors, fuel injectors, etc. Common sense dictates that evaporation of volatile particles speeds up that process.
So the logical solution should be: BAN STUPID PEOPLE FROM BUYING CONTAINERS OF GASOLINE! And allow the rest of us to use, with care, containers with open-at-the-end capped spouts. We'll remove the caps, then replace them.
Someone, somewhere, decided to penalize every buyer of new gasoline containers by equipping them with sleeves that allow more pollution than they were designed to prevent. You can't find an old-style spout on a gasoline can anywhere.
