Gov't mandates gas can flame arrestors.

[MossRoad]

A 5 gallon gas can at Menards is $17.00.

Midwest Can 5-Gallon Gas Can

This 5-gallon gasoline can features a no-spill spout that prevents spills and overfilling.

www.menards.com

 

[mx842]

A 5 gallon gas can at Menards is $17.00.

Midwest Can 5-Gallon Gas Can

This 5-gallon gasoline can features a no-spill spout that prevents spills and overfilling.

www.menards.com

I don't know if this was pointed at me but thanks for the link. The ones I got were metal with the pull lever latch. But for me it's not really the money that bothers me but paying for something that is a pain in the butt to use if you can use it at all. Trying to lift and hold a 5 gal can of gas while you are trying to get what ever it is out of the can and into a fuel tank can be a real pain and normally you end up with as much fuel on you as went into the tank. I had 8 old school plastic tanks that I paid around $20 for ea and they actually worked like a fuel can should.

 

[MTGreen]

Someone using a chainsaw near a bonfire. I know better then to do a second dowsing of gasoline, also that fumes are heavy and i wouldn't use gas anyway. But i don't use diesel, which i don't have, nor oil.

Nothing stopping you from trying to pass a law that mandates minimum education and certification, before one can buy and use a gas can. And be sure to come up with a funding source for said mandate, and you'll need inspectors to go around and make sure we all can show our gas can card. Or if you mean some "expert" should be around each time a new person goes to us a gas can, well that would be great, but not going to happen. There's no such thing as "common sense", it's information that you've been exposed to, not some genetically imprinted smarts.

I would argue that there is some measure of genetically imprinted smarts sometimes called common sense in humans and instinct in animals although I would agree the common sense term is frequently taken too far. Things like fear of water fear of falling and fear of snakes have been shown to be genetically imprinted in infant primates including humans along with suckling reflex, crying, etc. Part of the standard reflex test for infants includes simulated falling. Other genetically imprinted smarts include more complex things like avoidance of contact with excrement, not procreating with close relatives, banding into groups for protection, etc. -which not adhering to have adverse consequences.
I think that common sense in this context refers to not genetically imprinted knowledge but knowledge gained early on in every human's childhood like fire is hot and burns flesh, then later on gasoline lights on fire which then burns flesh.
I can understand this concept not getting through to a child or maybe even early teenage years, but anyone older than that raised in a society that uses gasoline has no excuse whatsoever - that's just plain stupidity

 

[Eagle1]

I'll argue that the imprinted smarts are fading and we tend to bubble wrap kids to point they never encounter the basic pain lessons most of us had in childhood (or as teens). How else do you explain trying to pet a wild buffalo or bear?
I bet most kids never had the pleasure of backing into a hot wood or oil burner at a young age that ensured you would never do that again. Or mess with knives so sharp they can split hair (grew up with a butcher grandpa). Never had farm dog or gander teach them proper protocol, etc.

 

[ManUpNawth]

From:

CPSC Requires Lifesaving Flame Mitigation Devices on Gas Cans and Other Portable Fuel Containers

"Many burn incidents involve liquid fuel used on a backyard fire pit, a campfire, a bonfire or burning trash."

Bruce

Hard to reply anything that the TbyN doesn't block with the note: "appears to be spam".

So, let's just go with - the 'flame mitigation devices' often cause fuel spills while filling.
and
The ventless can requirement causes excessive flexing of the cans as temperatures change causing spills from cracked cans and danger when opening a can that has 'swelled'.

The regulators clearly are not product users.

 

[Steelphoenix]

From:

CPSC Requires Lifesaving Flame Mitigation Devices on Gas Cans and Other Portable Fuel Containers

"Many burn incidents involve liquid fuel used on a backyard fire pit, a campfire, a bonfire or burning trash."

Bruce

It's called BUILD a fire (paper , kindling, progressively larger pieces , etc..), not pour a highly flammable liquid on a smoldering pile, for a reason.

 

[groundcover]

Surprised they didn't just outlaw burning, could have taken care of air pollution at the same time !

 

[mx842]

Surprised they didn't just outlaw burning, could have taken care of air pollution at the same time !

They ain't got that far yet.

 

[Pixguy]

Surprised they didn't just outlaw burning, could have taken care of air pollution at the same time !

Just give 'em time.

 

[Tinhack]

Just give 'em time.

They outlawed "strike anywhere" matches years ago.

In Thailand there's open holes in sidewalks and exposed electrical wires everywhere. If you don't look where you walk and you fall in a hole or die of electrocution, it's your tuff luck for being stupid. It's just natural selection--Like being eaten by a tiger.