Here's a surprise--it started in California. But the EPA mandated that gas cans had to conform to new regulations by 2009.
The result is that all of us struggle to use gas cans that leak and just flat don't perform their basic function which is to dispense a liquid from a container.
Most of us resort to retro-fitting the gas can with a usable spout. But you can't buy them that way. You have to dump gasoline on your hot lawn mower or spill the boat motor fuel into a wetland because that is all you can buy.
I have only personally witnessed one incidence of bureaucratic incompetence of this scale and that was when the Obama administration turned over the Small Business Administration to its bureaucrats at the start of his term. They effectively neutralized the function for which the SBA was created.
Shouldn't we know by now how government bureaucracies perform?
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