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I used to have gas cans that work. Now I can't get one that works.
Fact.
Edit: And most of the attempts to work around the problems of auto-closing end up causing the user to get gas on themself in the process of attempting to make the stupid broken government-can to work.
This sounds like conspiracy if I've ever heard one. The reason for all of these problems is the market, not government. The gas can is a trojan horse in this article.
You can get perfectly fine light bulbs. Can get perfectly great refrigerators. Lawnmowers still work just fine, with no need to be hacked. It's like complaining that the reason printers are so bad is because of "the damn government!" and citing HP's behavior when ignoring that there are brands that don't screw over the consumer for profit reasons.
I find this one especially funny as it's pretty much the lack of regulation that made the 'old' bulbs burn out much too quickly [1].
And before someone says "but my LED bulbs keep burning out", also the free-market/lack of regulation. To see how they should be built watch Clive on how bulbs are made for Dubai[2].
Yes. Sorry, that was what I was trying to convey. The 'market' brought us incandescent bulbs that were purpose built to fail much earlier . The market brought us LED bulbs that overdrive fewer LEDs resulting in them burning out and running less efficiently.
Dubai, in essence, went the regulation road and has longer-lasting more-efficient bulbs because of it.
And there's not really anything special about these bulbs. I mean they have more redundancy and run the leds at lower current, but there's nothing special you could claim ownership to. There's no new coating or led technology or anything, so even if such an agreement was made it doesn't seem like anything would prevent another manufacturer from making them.
From Clive's video description on youtube:
>> These lamps are currently only available in Dubai. The likelihood of them appearing elsewhere is limited by the fact that they are designed to last a long time, which isn't profitable for the manufacturers.
It's profitable for Philips to make them for Dubai because regulations mean there's no one selling a worse but cheaper version. If Philips sold the bulbs for $1 more in your local shop you'd buy the cheaper version because both say "last's forever", you can't tell the difference, and you've never even heard of tDubai bulbs ('you' being an average shopper).
If other countries created regulations around the efficiency level and how long the bulbs had to last then we'd likely end up with a similar bulb. We'd pay a little more per bulb, but save over the long term. As it is now there's more profit from multiple angles on making worse bulbs.
presumably referring to government regulations mandating them to have less (or zero) phosphorus
>Toilets don’t flush
presumably referring to government regulations mandating low flush toilets
>Light bulbs don’t illuminate
presumably referring to government regulations banning incandescent bulbs, requiring the use of CFL bulbs
The rest, I'm not sure about.
To go into one I'm really familiar with: light bulbs are fine after banning incandescent bulbs. LED bulbs (which were still available at time of the regulations) are better than incandescent bulbs in nearly every way, as long as you don't cheap out and go for one that flickers at under the rate of an incandescent.
The problem is poor consumer education, not government regulations.
It's not cherry-picking, it's choosing to speak on the one I'm most qualified to speak on. I live in an area of the country way too low-income to have dealt with most of those problems. But out of the problems listed, I know multiple of them to be outright lies, and since the author was fine about lying about the few I know for sure, it doesn't seem unlikely that the others are also lies.
LED bulbs were readily available at the time? My memory might be fuzzy, but the phase out started in 2012[1], and the lighting section at the hardware store was a sea of CFLs.
[1] In December 2007, the federal government enacted the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), [...] The law was to effectively ban most incandescent light bulbs, starting in January 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_ligh...
https://www.hse.gov.uk/fireandexplosion/portabable-petrol-st...
>The government never said “no vents.” It abolished them de facto with new standards that every state had to adopt by 2009. So for the last three years, you have not been able to buy gas cans that work properly. They are not permitted to have a separate vent. 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.
Indeed, if you drill down into the regulations you linked, you'll see the same requirements listed:
>The closure should not show any visible signs of leaking even if the container is on its side or accidentally tipped over.
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/no-spill-gas-can-1...
And no. It's not better than a simple spout and vent can.
However, you said that vented cans don’t exist. It’s not true. They do exist. I proved it. This can is vented.
What is true is that the vents require some kind of activation at the time of pour. This model relies on a button, which means two hands. I’ve personally found that using two hands is kind of a requirement for this size of gas can. That’s my personal experience, so I like this model for the speed of its pour. There exist other designs where you activate the vent by pushing on the nozzle and a lip or catch hooks the opening and a sleeve pulls back exposing the vent. I personally have found that design to be problematic because the springs are often faulty or too strong. You could use those one handed if you want, I guess, but I don’t prefer to do that, so, all in, I do t prefer those models.
Regardless, they exist, you can buy them. One handers, two handers, fortunately I’m unaware of any three or more handers.
But this nonsense about gurgling and splashing because “vents are illegal” is a lie and is gaslighting, especially when you can order pallets of evidence to the contrary.