[Arizona_928]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Washington has, by law, these horrible compressible bellows that surround the nozzle to supposedly catch any fumes. On my '72 911, the first bend in the filler neck occurs high enough up that it is impossible to insert the nozzle and compress the bellows enough to allow it to pump (there is a shutoff on the nozzle that has to be tripped by compressing the bellows). So, I wind up having to hold and compress the bellows with one hand and the handle on the nozzle with the other.

That's a trick I had to learn while filling motorcycle tanks with these poorly thought out devices. Oh, it's entirely possible to stick the nozzle in far enough to compress its bellows, but then the nozzle is so far into the tank that it will only half fill the tank before it shuts off. So, we pull the nozzle up until the bellows are no longer compressed, compress the bellows with one hand, and squeeze the handle with the other.

I bet the gasoline spilled by folks filling older vehicles and motorcycles contribute vastly more fumes than if these bellows were not used at all. And let's not even discuss trying to fill a gas can... I've lost track of how many I've seen knocked over by some poor sap trying to compress that damn bellows down onto one, spilling its contents across the parking lot.

Exactly. Ban the old cars. If old timers want to use them. Lets build tracks for them...