High cost of fuel cans!!!!

[TboneMan]

So, I know a guy who makes his own biodiesel. I've used it a couple of time mixing 5 gallons when I fill up with dino-fuel.



I go into my local TSC to get a couple of fuel cans (yellow plastic with pour spout). so that I can increase my storage capacity.



Man, was I surprised when I saw a $16. 00 price tag on a simple fuel can.



What's up with that. It is a piece of plastic! Government regulation?



If it has been a while since you've purchase one, you'd be amazed at all of the warnings and other stuff printed on these, e. g. , "For use with off-road vehicles only". AMAZING!

 

[Cummins Thunder]

And they suck more than ever!!! I just bought 12 of them @$16. 50 each

 

[Blu-meanie]

So, I know a guy who makes his own biodiesel. I've used it a couple of time mixing 5 gallons when I fill up with dino-fuel.



I go into my local TSC to get a couple of fuel cans (yellow plastic with pour spout). so that I can increase my storage capacity.



Man, was I surprised when I saw a $16. 00 price tag on a simple fuel can.



What's up with that. It is a piece of plastic! Government regulation?



If it has been a while since you've purchase one, you'd be amazed at all of the warnings and other stuff printed on these, e. g. , "For use with off-road vehicles only". AMAZING!

I'm surprised you could find the warnings in ENGLISH.

 

[Dieselnut59]

Fill them with diesel and you will quadruple the price of the can!

Plastic is VERY expensive these days. It is a petroleum based product. When oil goes up, everything that uses oil goes up.

 

[xpetecx]

I dont know if it would be the same were you are but the yellow or blue cans for diesel and kerosene are almost twice the price of the red gasoline cans. thats bs.

 

[Tractorat]

Im sure the reason the yellow cans cost more than the red gas cans is the same as it is the way they price gasoline in different neighborhoods. They figure that if you can afford to buy diesel, you can afford to spend more on the can.

 

[nickleinonen]

i got 2x 20 liter cans for $30 tax included a month ago up here in canada . the red gas cans are cheaper than the yellow or blue ones

 

[Tractorat]

I dont have a clue as to the legalities, so maybe its illegal to do this. But unless you feel that you have a real possibility of putting gas into your diesel truck, why would one buy the expensive yellow can when you can buy the less expensive red can and just put diesel in it ?

 

[JRBurton]

If you don't like the price of the plastic cans then you definetly don't want to look at the metal safety cans. I think I paid $35. 00 for one.



John

 

[Simplysmn]

Go to your local surplus store and get a plastic GI fuel can they are pretty much indestructable when I flipped the truck last yr My can in the bed landed on it side and never lost a drop yeah you will most likly pay around 20 bucks for a used can but they last a long time and there easy to use youcan either use the slipin or screw in spout on them . I now have 2

 

[TboneMan]

Actually, the red and yellow cans at the TSC were the same price $16. 00!!



All I can figure is they must have to be certified or something to cause the high price.

 

[steved]

I saw this yesterday...

"Due to Pennsylvania law, we can not offer the gas cans shown in the flyer because they do not conform to CARB requirements".

I asked the guy why that was, he said "emissions". I said what state is this, he gave me a very strange look and said "Pennsylvania?". I then asked him why CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCE BOARD requirements pertained to Pennsylvania??? He gave me a very confused look...

Its getting very stupid out there... EPA is one of the reasons we don't have cars getting 50+mpg. The last "good" year for the Jetta was 1997... the newer ones get around 15mpg LESS than the older models because of emissions... just an example.

 

[HGreen]

I understand that the price of plastic cans has increased remarkably because of the increase of siphoning of fuel from the neighborhood trucks and car.



Its the supply and demand thing at work.

 

[RDusch]

Not much cheaper, but these are great cans, best you can buy for the money, i've never had one leak even under pressure.
Nato Gerry Can
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[JLEONARD]

Ok... I have a 40 ft trawler... it has two "fuel cans" of 180 gallons each.

You don't want to know the cost.

(but I love it). :-laf

Cheers.

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

Makes me feel good about the pair of red plastic 6-gallon fuel containers I recently bought for $4. 95 each... :-laf

 

[MickeyMiller]

California can only buy CARB approved fuel cans with 'vapor containing' pour spouts... which of course don't 'contain the vapor'. NATO and GI cans are ILLEGAL for use in California... but its not actively enforced. More needless interfearance by so called environmentalist movement, costing the public $ and freedeom. Especially needless in light the new, higher priced low aromatic, California only diesel!!!

 

[steved]

California can only buy CARB approved fuel cans with 'vapor containing' pour spouts... which of course don't 'contain the vapor'. NATO and GI cans are ILLEGAL for use in California... but its not actively enforced. More needless interfearance by so called environmentalist movement, costing the public $ and freedeom. Especially needless in light the new, higher priced low aromatic, California only diesel!!!

Looks like that's beginning to be the case in PA as well...

 

[buddys06]

But you can still by NORMAL diesel cans legally, but they say for offroad use only on them. Gas cans are all no spill only, though they spill more than the old ones did.

 

[rbattelle]

Looks like that's beginning to be the case in PA as well...

OH too. I bought a fuel can from McMaster last year, shipping from their Chicago warehouse. They called me the next day and said they aren't allowed to ship it to me here in OH because it's illegal in OH.

The only legal cans in OH are the horrible "ventless" ones, which almost invariably cause me to spill fuel all over the place while trying to fill my mower. They're apparently "safer".

Brilliant.

Ryan