The gubmint has mandated those pour-proof spouts. Any gas you can get to come out of the can, goes all over you, the ground, and your vehicle or machine.
If anyone should get sued, it's the government.
How timely. I’ve got this ancient, i.e. decades old, gas can which has developed a problem. It’s an EAGLE brand, and labeled as “The Gasser’, which I never even knew all these years until I looked at it for online reference.
The thing is, it had this little rubber button to press to allow pouring from the screw-on rubber hose spout, and somehow this button went missing. I think I must have knocked it off while stowing my snow shovel, but it’s still a mystery because I can’t find any evidence of it anywhere in the vicinity.
So, I looked online at the EAGLE 2 1/2 gallon offerings, and they are grotesque. Somebody didn’t like this button arrangement, and the offering now is of a spout which hangs down like a big nose, and you pour out of a wide mouth into this spout, which is vertically attached to the can. What could go wrong? A wide mouth pouring into a narrow top of an awkard spout which must be somehow aimed into the receptacle, in my case the lawn mower gas cap opening. I don’t even want to think about it.
But I still have this open hole in my gas can, which I temporarily remedied with a custom plug fashioned from a wooden dowel. I’m thinking I can get a sheet metal screw and a flexible washer which will seal the hole, and which I can loosen to allow pouring. A little more demanding than the button, but I don’t have to do it very often.
Please don’t report me.