Vented Gas Cans Illegal

Next time buy a gas can from a motorcycle shop.

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. The portable fuel container pfc regulations are an important concept in our efforts to improve california s air quality. 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.

So for the last ten years you have not been able to buy gas cans that work properly. The top has to close automatically. So for the last three years you have not been able to buy gas cans that work properly. The new style gas cans are terrible fragile contraptions that have caused many a spills and are responsible for numerous new curse words b.

It isn t a secret. The epa banned normal gas cans in 2009 following the pioneers at the california air resources board which intones. It abolished them de facto with new standards that every state had to adopt by 2009. We still have some of the old now illegal gas cans.

They are not permitted to have a separate vent. Pfcs also known as gas cans. The company that made them was forced into bankruptcy by lawsuits from stupid people. And don t tell me about spillage.

They have much better bottles tall and round with very long nozzles and no safety features at all. 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. Go see for yourself at ace or home depot.