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jeepinmatt

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Saw this article this morning about the stupid spouts on gas cans these days:
How Government Wrecked the Gas Can | Jeffrey A. Tucker

What other stuff has been pointlessly screwed up by overregulation and bureaucratic overreach?

I think self driving cars and related technologies will take the fun out of driving in the next 5-10 years.
 
Fortunately, as is the case with everything, good old fashioned spouts are available.

4 wheel parts has them!

I have 6 now! LOL!
 
jeepinmatt said:
Saw this article this morning about the stupid spouts on gas cans these days:
How Government Wrecked the Gas Can | Jeffrey A. Tucker

What other stuff has been pointlessly screwed up by overregulation and bureaucratic overreach?

I think self driving cars and related technologies will take the fun out of driving in the next 5-10 years.
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Driverless cars are something completely different than idiotic regulation. The "government" does not want self driving cars for a host of reasons.

Fast forward 30 years, the real issue will be the mandate that REQUIRES your car to be self driving or at minimum have collision avoidance capable of full override of driver input. That is more like the gas can situation.
 
I could not figure out how to get gas out of the can the first time I bought one of the new safety cans. I didn't even realize what the fawk was going on and that it had a new faggled safetly spout. I just thought it was a normal gas can. I thought something was wrong with the spout. I never did figure out how it was supposed to work. I got so pissed I took a big drill bit and reamed out the spout so I could fill up my mower. Shortly after that I bought a high flow normal nozzle at Tractor supply. FIDIOTS who developed that bastard.
 
I stick good one safety cans!
 
drkelly said:
I could not figure out how to get gas out of the can the first time I bought one of the new safety cans. I didn't even realize what the fawk was going on and that it had a new faggled safetly spout. I just thought it was a normal gas can. I thought something was wrong with the spout. I never did figure out how it was supposed to work. I got so pissed I took a big drill bit and reamed out the spout so I could fill up my mower. Shortly after that I bought a high flow normal nozzle at Tractor supply. FIDIOTS who developed that bastard.
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I've had one for 3 months that I still can't get fuel out of. I now use it for diesel to pour onto wood before burning. I just unscrew the damn spout.
 
I've just started buying the vp racing style jugs. Those safety jugs really get me to fussin.
 
Falko said:
... the mandate that REQUIRES your car to be self driving or at minimum have collision avoidance capable of full override of driver input. That is more like the gas can situation.
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Mine can drive itself...It just isn't very good at it!:D
 
getting back to the original question

How about light bulbs? Sometimes you just need a good old fashioned incandescent bulb. They don't harm anything, just "inefficient" - if your goal is only light. Maybe I don't care, or I want a little heat too. Let me choose to use it and pay the extra $$ for power.
 
RatLabGuy said:
getting back to the original question

How about light bulbs? Sometimes you just need a good old fashioned incandescent bulb. They don't harm anything, just "inefficient" - if your goal is only light. Maybe I don't care, or I want a little heat too. Let me choose to use it and pay the extra $$ for power.
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Used to be common to have one in the "well house" where I lved in Texas, When temps got down to around 32, would turn it on to keep the pump from freezing... Don't know what they do about that now since I haven't lived there in 15 years...
 
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They probably buy halogens.
 
zuke said:
Used to be common to have one in the "well house" where I lved in Texas, When temps got down to around 32, would turn it on to keep the pump from freezing... Don't know what they do about that now since I haven't lived there in 15 years...
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The death of the Easy Bake Oven..... No wonder my daughter can't make me cookies.
 
drkelly said:
I could not figure out how to get gas out of the can the first time I bought one of the new safety cans. I didn't even realize what the fawk was going on and that it had a new faggled safetly spout. I just thought it was a normal gas can. I thought something was wrong with the spout. I never did figure out how it was supposed to work. I got so pissed I took a big drill bit and reamed out the spout so I could fill up my mower. Shortly after that I bought a high flow normal nozzle at Tractor supply. FIDIOTS who developed that bastard.
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I needed a replacement spout and didn't realize the nanny state had jack knifed the new ones.Never did figure out how to use it,just always use a funnel w that can.
 
Once I figured it out the safety spout isn't that hard to use, I twisted the lock to hard and may have stripped it a lil because now I can lock it in the open position....




Light bulbs on the other hand.... that pisses me off! I just need a regular ol 60 watt to put in the coop to keep the eggs from freezin... you used to be able to buy 12 bulbs for a dollar.... now all I could find was a heavy duty bulb that cost me three bucks and already has a broken filament..... commie bastards!
 
Computers on cars
Sensors, catalytic converters

American cars! There are no true American made cars any more. May have parts built here but the components are from everywhere!

Not mandated, but cell phones. They have the majority of people, young and old, walking around looking at their phones
Reminds me of a Zombie movie.
 
^^ the automotive industry is full of stories of regulation killing things.
Look at the horrible performance of cars in the 80s from the new smog requirements that were terribly implemented.
 
Look at VW/Fiat and the small diesels that are "not clean enough" for the EPA. So what are they gonna do? Scrap 450,000 otherwise perfectly good cars? That seems a heck of a lot less environmentally friendly.
 
jeepinmatt said:
Look at VW/Fiat and the small diesels that are "not clean enough" for the EPA. So what are they gonna do? Scrap 450,000 otherwise perfectly good cars? That seems a heck of a lot less environmentally friendly.
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One of VW's options after the buyback is to re-import the cars, I bet alot of them find their way to Mexico, and maytbe Canada if there deisel regs aren't so draconian, and we'll still get the particulate matter back here :)
 
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