Thanks to the parliamentary lithium battery lobby, all household petrol cans must be certified and followed for their lifetime.
At their end of life ‘Product Lifecycle Responsibility’ requires the petrol can must be disposed of in an appropriate location such as on the steps of the national headquarters of your favourite petroleum company.
Include all documentation and reporting requirements.
In view of two Australian deaths from a lithium fire in the last five years, and approximately 100 deaths from petrol fires in the same period, petrol can refills must be registered immediately.
In line with lithium battery requirements fuel cans now attract fines up to $200,000 in the case of failure of reporting.
In reality the above is being applied to lithium batteries but is not being applied to petrol cans. Up to 250 litres of petrol may be stored in a residential setting. That’s equivalent to 1.94 tonnes of TNT!
Certain death in a circle 30m in diameter… and the fossil fuel lobby is putting barriers in the way of batteries? Derrrr?
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
