Vented Gas Cans Illegal

There are other silly things now too but the biggest problem is that they do not do well what cans are supposed to do.

Vented gas cans illegal.

They have much better bottles tall and round with very long nozzles and no safety features at all. They are not permitted to have a separate vent. We still have some of the old now illegal gas cans. Next time buy a gas can from a motorcycle shop.

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. Vocs are considered a greenhouse gas and their release can also contaminate groundwater. The current regulations focus on the ability of vocs to permeate through the material and fittings of the container as well as emissions released when pouring out fuel or when container caps are left off or left open during storage. The company that made them was forced into bankruptcy by lawsuits from stupid people.

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. The top has to close automatically. Go see for yourself at ace or home depot. It abolished them de facto with new standards that every state had to adopt by 2009.

The epa banned normal gas cans in 2009 following the pioneers at the california air resources board which intones. They are not permitted to have a separate vent. So for the last three years you have not been able to buy gas cans that work properly. The top has to close automatically.

It isn t a secret. And don t tell me about spillage. The new style gas cans are terrible fragile contraptions that have caused many a spills and are responsible for numerous new curse words b.