New gas cans are great for storage, not so great for dispensing. The easiest way I have found is to use a safety siphon. It's just a check valve and a clear hose. You put the valve in the gas and jiggle it to fill the hose, then it siphons. They come with a vinyl hose that gets stiff when it is cold. I replaced mine with a tygon hose which works much better.

Gas cans manufactured post ~2020 have an internal flame arrester baffle that interferes with doing this, but it's pretty easy to remove. Just don't do that on the can that you use to start bon fires ; )

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Yes. The 1930s Wehrmacht-Einheitskanister is an engineering masterpiece.

I have heaps of them.

I am way too cheap for those. They are 6X the price of normal gas cans by the time you ship them to Alaska.

Oof! That's fair enough. They are much easier to obtain in Europe.

I managed to pick up some used ones many years ago. Some place was selling new ones for cheaps about 20 years ago, and I was always eager to exchange cash for business expenses back then.

Metal eagle brand cans don't suck. All the plastic ones do for sure.

The new gas cans suck.