Gov't mandates gas can flame arrestors.

[scootr]

More govt control is always their answer. Ha ha ha. I say dump all the confiscated drugs in a big pile and let them have it. This will accomplish so much! First supply will exceed the demand and the price will fall so hard there will be no more smuggling. 2nd all the addicts will kill themselves thus reducing the US carbon footprint and national budget. I say I got a win win idea and it's not political anybody can do it. And it might save the planet.

 

[03blkvert]

I will not post what I really think.

My thoughts exactly!!!

 

[logixjock]

When someone pours gas on a brush pile or a fire pit, they are going to standing in the midst of a lot of flammable vapor. I'm not so sure that a flame arrestor on a gas can is going to save them at that point.

I have an awesomely funny story that involves a 5th of Canadian Club, a sketchy old wooden ladder, a chainsaw, and pouring gas on a smoldering burnpile, but I wouldn't want to be responsible for encouraging that kind of behavior in anyone else so I'll let everyone just use their imagination. My children are still laughing at me 15 years later...

 

[groundcover]

I have an awesomely funny story that involves a 5th of Canadian Club, a sketchy old wooden ladder, a chainsaw, and pouring gas on a smoldering burnpile, but I wouldn't want to be responsible for encouraging that kind of behavior in anyone else so I'll let everyone just use their imagination. My children are still laughing at me 15 years later...

Amazing that you are around to tell that story! The trifecta of dumb and then some !

 

[GeneV]

Actually, we have significant resources arrayed along our Southern Border - hard working agents armed with various 'high tech' apparatus.

"The 1,951 mile U.S.-Mexico border is the busiest in the world. Each year the our southern border allows in more than 300 million people, approximately 90 million cars, and 4.3 million truck crossings."

Now, image your drive to town via an 'Interstate' with a similar number of vehicles transiting the road.

How would you propose stopping and examining every 'backpack' in every one of those ninety-four+ million vehicles (10,765/hour) for a pill? How would you like to be in that Northbound lane trying to get to the grocery or to your office or farm?

How would you propose the government conduct ten thousand searches per hour?

Th Pot, Heroin, Cocaine, Fentanyl and the like are not coming because the border is weak, but because so many of your fellow Americans are willing to pay for the ****.

Why is that? How can people living in 'the greatest country in the world" (he said) be so miserable as to turn from the reality that is their experience of the American dream to a life of addiction to drugs that put them at risk of incarceration, physical misery and early onset of death? And literally willy to pay through the ass or worse for the ****!

Sounds to me as if we've a medical issue. The Sackler Family figured it out and came up with a Medical solution that diverted lots of the drug traffic from the Southern Boarder to doctors and retail pharmacies in small town America.

Maybe, if we allowed folks to register as addicts and get their fixes from a pharmacy with a government issued photo id card, we could reduce and possibly eliminate any incentive to swallow cocaine condoms or the equivalent and 'sneak across' our border, fly over them in a plane or tunnel under a border wall.

Sure, we'd likely have as many deaths by overdose and such, but we'd end drug traffic across the our borders and slowly eliminate the users without the expense of incarcerating them much less the cost of maintaining the tens of thousands of Drug Police, the costs of trying, convicting and incarcerating the mules and sellers and users as we have done since - what, 1934?

2023 - 1934 = one awfully long 'war on drugs!'

Maybe it's time we tried another strategy?

I tell ya what the problem is, it's all them illegal alienses, injecting themselves with the marijuana drug and then using gas cans around open fires! Crampin our style 'n sheeeeit!

 

[Jstpssng]

This thread was just reopened today. Can we please keep the political BS out of it?

 

[MaxLee]

Then can mandate whatever they want... I use this on all my gas cans

 

[retiredIW]

i took several tubeless tire valves, took out the stem drilled hole on plastic and metal cans several when empty of course, then stuck piece of tie wire through holes in can then through valve stem threaded end on first put kink in wire near base to guide through small drilled hole. Pulled into hole until it popped into place. removed wire of course placed valve cap and wallah non leaking vent. no engineers or congress to figure that out.

 

[MaxLee]

i took several tubeless tire valves, took out the stem drilled hole on plastic and metal cans several when empty of course, then stuck piece of tie wire through holes in can then through valve stem threaded end on first put kink in wire near base to guide through small drilled hole. Pulled into hole until it popped into place. removed wire of course placed valve cap and wallah non leaking vent. no engineers or congress to figure that out.

I heard this before, not sure where. Sound like a good idea

 

[retiredIW]

Wait ok, so what do you mean, like we can't bag on the EPA in this thread? Like I'm not being a smartass, just asking can we only talk here about the pros/cons of flame arrestors as they're mandating?

That is exactly what they are saying Gene