Vented Gas Cans Illegal

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.

Vented gas cans illegal.

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

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. 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. The company that made them was forced into bankruptcy by lawsuits from stupid people. The top has to close automatically. They are not permitted to have a separate vent.

They have much better bottles tall and round with very long nozzles and no safety features at all. 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. Pfcs also known as gas cans.

Vocs are considered a greenhouse gas and their release can also contaminate groundwater. It isn t a secret. The top has to close automatically.