Have I complained about gas cans yet?
I recommend electric mowers. They don't stink and they don't vibrate. But about the time my electric mower went pfft, I inherited a Honda mower from a downsizing parent/relative type person going onto Heaven.
So I have to keep gas on hand.
Gas cans used to be aluminum, painted red, had an aluminum nozzle with a screw on lid. Apparently one of out 40 zillion times somebody used one, there was a spark and somebody blew up so over the last 30 years or so they have made them increasingly user-unfriendlier and dubiously safer.
The current gizomo is plastic with a plastic nozzle, but wait there's more. The nozzle is closed and the gas inside the can will not flow freely until the smaller black nozzle is released from the larger yellow nozzle. This is accomplished by squeezing a black plastic clasp into the yellow nozzle while balancing the 30 pound five gallon can on your knee while squeezing the maddening black clasp with your left thumb while inserting the projecting black nozzle into whatever filler opening you're trying to fill.
With a mower, I've learned to remove the nozzle unit, cuss at it and toss it back into the shed and then pour the gas directly from the jug into a funnel I put on top of the mower tank.
But last night my wife drove my car, when I got it it said 3 miles to E and the nearest gas station about 4 miles away so I attempted to wrestle the impossible nozzle into my car's filler hole.
Naturally gas came out at the base of the nozzle instead of end of the never opening nozzle.
So I'd like to know who imagined that would be safer?
Have gas can manufacturers partnered with A Tobacco Free America? Is that what this is about?
Why they got to make things so complicated?
