I have had a standing challenge for anyone to affirm that they,
themself, personally witnessed a fire start by a static spark from
refueling by hand from a plastic can, metal, glass, anything... To date
everyone keeps posting what the govt, or Chevron said, or his buddy who
knew a guy, yadda, yadda,,, The actual incident rate of fire sparked by
pouring gas from a 5 gallon plastic can has to be about as close to
zero and you can get, given the tens of millions of lawn mowers,
tractors, snowmobiles, motorcycles, etc., that are refueled by hand
from plastic cans every single day in the this country...

Just use common sense... Set the can on the wing and while holding it
reach down and unlatch the gas cap... Your body is the grounding
resistor that makes all the static charges equalize...

denny