Biden's gas policies are driving the price of gasoline through the roof, and I anticipate nationwide shortages pretty soon. I already have a 5 gallon container of gas stored away, but I wanted another. This Scepter is the only 5-gallon container that California will allow to be sold in the state. Naturally, this translates to a "you'll-need-a-herd-of-monkeys-to-be-able-to-pour-anything-out-of-it" nozzle. Thanks, CA. The first thing I did when it was delivered was to tear apart the entire nozzle assembly. Unscrewing it is pretty easy, but you have to cut off the green plastic doodad that's press-fit to the can's small spout. There goes the ability to return it! Next, there's a nylon filter that is press-fit INSIDE the spout. It's about 5" long. How to remove it? It has a couple of tabs on it. I found that if I took some long-nosed pliers and grabbed on of those tabs, I could twist the nylon like an alligator does a "death roll." Keep twisting and this nylon thing rolls around the pliers. In no time at all, the filter came out. Now I could put one of these cheap replacement nozzle/cap things on it. It seemed to be kinda flimsy, but it looked like it would do the trick. I then hopped in the car and went out to fill the canister up for its maiden voyage. After filling up the can, I put it in the trunk and drove home. Unfortunately, the can tipped over on the drive home and gasoline slowly leaked out of the cheap screw-on cap. Great, now the trunk smells of gasoline! I realized that this cheap replacement nozzle thing wasn't going to work. You do not want a gas can that will slowly emit gas fumes sitting in your garage. I then searched for something better. Unfortunately all of these replacement nozzles look like they were made by the same Chinese shop sitting over a noodle restaurant. I had to find something different. I decided to abandon the idea of a hidden nozzle thing and found these simple screw-on caps: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NB3UUDK It says the caps will fit a Scepter can "with coarse threads." I decided to take a gamble and ordered them. When they arrived, I removed the cheap replacement nozzle and capped off the Scepter's spout with the simple cap. It screwed on very tightly. And because the cap has a good thick neoprene (?) gasket, you can cinch it down real tight. I tilted the can on its side to see if there were any leaks. Nope. Problem solved. When the time comes to transfer gas from the Scepter to my car's gas tank, I have bought one of these $10 siphon hand pumps to slowly transfer it. Put the Scepter on the car's trunk lid (i.e., above the car's gas tank — "gravity"), and then begin the slow siphon process. I can transfer most of the gasoline this way, without spilling anything. The canister itself is strong. I like that it has two handles, although I won't need them now that I intend to siphon the can empty. The stock CA nozzle is, of course, a pile of cr@p, that needs to be replaced with something, hence one star off. I don't blame Scepter for this, it's all California's fault for mandating this nonsense, which Amazon has to enforce. Just be aware that you should replace the cap with something if you buy it, which will add to the total cost. Seems silly to have to pay over $50 for a crummy gas can, that's another artifact of Biden's economy — inflation.
