Vented Gas Cans Illegal

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.

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

They are not permitted to have a separate vent. They are not permitted to have a separate vent. The company that made them was forced into bankruptcy by lawsuits from stupid people. It isn t a secret.

They have much better bottles tall and round with very long nozzles and no safety features at all. The new style gas cans are terrible fragile contraptions that have caused many a spills and are responsible for numerous new curse words b. The top has to close automatically. 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. Go see for yourself at ace or home depot. We still have some of the old now illegal gas cans. And don t tell me about spillage.

Vocs are considered a greenhouse gas and their release can also contaminate groundwater. Next time buy a gas can from a motorcycle shop. Pfcs also known as gas cans.