Vented Gas Cans Illegal

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

Vented gas cans illegal.

We still have some of the old now illegal gas cans. It isn t a secret. The top has to close automatically. 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 epa banned normal gas cans in 2009 following the pioneers at the california air resources board which intones. 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. Vocs are considered a greenhouse gas and their release can also contaminate groundwater. The company that made them was forced into bankruptcy by lawsuits from stupid people.

The top has to close automatically. So for the last ten years you have not been able to buy gas cans that work properly. Go see for yourself at ace or home depot. There are other silly things now too but the biggest problem is that they do not do well what cans are supposed to do.

It abolished them de facto with new standards that every state had to adopt by 2009. 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. So for the last three years you have not been able to buy gas cans that work properly.

They are not permitted to have a separate vent. They are not permitted to have a separate vent. 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.