With the nasty weather coming I made the kid take me to fill up cars and fuel cans. Then since I didn’t have the money when the CARB laws came around, I came home and started looking for a few Wavian cans to purchase. At $120 per can I might just keep buying No Spill cans. Am I just looking in the wrong places?

I’d like to have the Wavians, but they’re way out of budget.

A crappy no-spill can and fifteen bucks more spent at Bezos World, and I’m good to go.

EZ Pour link

Check Vevor Cans Vevor Jerry cans

I have 4 Wavians that I bought a few years ago. They are great but holy cow, I did not realize that they were $125 at Amazon (Bezos Mart) now. The Vevors look to be equivalent and get great reviews.

Wavian, or other used jerry cans can sometimes be found at surplus stores. Worth a look.

Dayum.

I got mine ~6 years ago for around $45.

They've tripled in price?

A combination of Biden Bucks and possible tariffs perhaps?

Sure cans are better. You stick the cap to prop the handle open, no spill, easy

https://www.overtons.com/surec...mpaignid=12765889416

Covid bucks had a lot to do with it. Look at the M1 money supply charts

at one time there was a thread here about Wavian and having a sale on them before something about the design changed

I remember buying 8 of them - 4 red and 4 green

I had two of the greens mounted in the truck bed of my Tacoma and I fill them with gas in AZ before I venture into California on business

I didn't pay more than $75 for them at the time

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Originally posted by scratchy:
Covid bucks had a lot to do with it. Look at the M1 money supply charts

For those that missed the importance of this astute post, here is both a simple definition of M1 and the M1 chart from George W Bush's inauguration through the last data available in 2025.

The St Louis branch of the Federal reserve publishes the money supply data and M1 is the most liquid money circulating the US economy that is available for immediate transaction.


The FRED screwed with the definition of M1 in May 2020 supposedly coincide with saving withdrawal limits being removed as it made saving more liquid (the pessimist in me thinks it's to mask the giant monetary supply gain in 2020 with a redefinition). M2 includes M1 plus small denominaiton time deposits (e.g. CDs) and retail money markets. It is actually a slightly better definition since it's more consistent definition before and after May 2020. It still shows that the FED created money out of thin air during the scamdemic knowing it would cause massive inflation. The M2 money supply grew by an astounding 41% over two years, with the year-over-year growth rate peaking at nearly 27% in February 2021

What the heck is M1?

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Originally posted by 400m:
What the heck is M1?

Physical currency in circulation, traveler's checks, and "demand deposits" like traditional checking accounts. After May 2020, they added savings accounts to M1.

Long story short, One of the major reasons your Wavian cans cost more is the FED created money out of thin air knowing it'd cause inflation.

Usually it takes longer than 4 hours to hijack a thread for your singular focus.

Gold star!!!

I don’t own any and have never seen one in person, but the made in China Vervor cans get mixed reviews on websites not controlled by the company. The seam not being recessed bugs me.

I have few Midwest plastic cans that aren’t the worst. I have two complaints: one, they take way too long to empty and two, their shape doesn’t allow them to empty completely into a vehicle. Looks like they have addressed both with their Speed-Flo can: Link. The only negative is they won’t work with most gasoline powered vehicle because the nozzle doesn’t fit unleaded fill ports.

I’m glad I don’t have to buy a new fuel can today, I dislike the vast majority of them. My mantra has been older or ‘modified’, newer types.

I’m standing by for the EPA to relax the regs, never seen so much spilled fuel.

All you need is a new nozzle

I got 3 of these for like 18 bucks from Amazon and they work amazingly well on turning a crappy can into a good one in less than 3 minutes.

Sometimes the threads are different when trying to respout a newer EPA fuel can. I think that was mandated purposely.

I just bought a bunch of Tuff Jugs. They look and sound great but I don’t have them in hand yet. I will advise.

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Originally posted by sourdough44:
Sometimes the threads are different when trying to respout a newer EPA fuel can. I think that was mandated purposely.

They give you like 3 different sets of thread adapters for this reason

Modern gas is such crap and starts to go bad so quick, that I have almost no use for large cans anymore. I have a 3 gallon Wavian and I'm hesitant to even use that anymore. My one gallon jugs see the most use.