I'm kind of amazed you see this and yet you're still buying a poll that says trump's approval plummetted specifically among young people.
This is the same generation with an attention span shorter than the life span of a fruit fly. They thought Trump was awesome one moment, so it's almost inevitable they will do a heel turn if someone convinces them it's the new hip trend that will be forgotten again within a week.
Wait, this shit was enforced by law in the US? Never seen retarded gas cans like these before. Shit, usually people just pour that shit into empty oil bottles. Don't tell me it was required by law that you needed one of these gay canisters to be able to tank gas at a station into a container as well.
The older gas cans were grandfathered to allow people owning them to keep using them. The problem came when having to replace the old cans for any reason because the only option was the new ones. Sure, there are workarounds, but the average person tends to choose the path of least resistance and not opt for them - assuming they even know they exist.
It is only supposed to vent while pouring. Otherwise, air has to enter through the same passageway that the liquid is going out of, which leads to unpredictable streams and accidental spillage.
Now the Trump admin is telling them to design them to do both, prevent fume leaks and vent to increase fuel flow when filling a tank.
From experience, not having a vent means the gas doesn't pour smoothly. Younger me tried pouring gas into the mower with the vent closed and it barely poured out at all. Tipping the can more resulted in the gas all trying to slosh out at once because of the pressure imbalance. The open vent helps prevent that.
If there is a way to have an old-style gas can with a vent that only opens during the pouring process, I'm all favor for Trump directing the EPA to allow it and balance practicality with safety.
It would be one thing if the EPA's mandate was to improve air quality, protect waterways, fight pollution, and help combat global climate warming-cooling change. However, it ends up being used as a tool of Democrat administrations to fuck with people.
The EPA had its purpose when it was first formed. Like any other large governmental entity, it unfortunately got too big for its britches and caused more problems than it prevented and become more partisan over time.
The EPA's problem is they pretty much solved all the real problems in the 1990s. After that they had to keep inventing new rules and bullshit to justify their continued existence.
Where I grew up the river used to change different neon colors depending on what the factories up stream where making.
To say something positive about the EPA (and it's state-level equivalent), some guy inherited the family business involving hazardous chemicals even though he knew squat about properly running it. TL; DR - He improperly disposed of the chemicals which then seeped out into the adjoining roadway and sewer. The EPA and state coordinated to quickly address the situation, remediate the property, and throw the owner in jail for gross negligence.
Still, this doesn't excuse their scope creep and the bureaucratic inertia that leads them to unduly micromanage stuff when it's not in anyone's best interest but their own.
What would you rather hear about: the EPA spending a trillion dollars for think tanks to jerk off about climate change, or the EPA spending a trillion dollars to clean up brownfield sites? The former is what the Democrats always talk about, so people think the EPA is a do-nothing agency. Good work, retards. Now your funding gets cut and you can't do either.
All the administrative overhead and bloat needs to go. I can only hope this was something DOGE looked at. I'd rather the money going to needless crap instead go to the agency's actual purpose. Even if the extra money is barely enough to fund the remediation of one extra brownfield site a year, that's still a net improvement. I suspect Trumps defunding efforts is his way of doing "nuke it and start over from scratch."
I just assumed not being able to refuel the vehicle from a gas can was the final "fuck you, you bought a Ford".
I know someone in Ford management who expressed reluctance to buy the company's current offerings because of this type of BS and the whole unreliability and issues surrounding EVs.
