I finally bought a snow blower in January when we that big snow. I'd read up on them and kept seeing how you needed a fuel additive to avoid a common problem with the engines. The guy at Lowes told me as much too and said that Troy-Bilt recommended using Sta-Bil 360 Performance. Okay, why not? But, since I'd use this fuel just for the snow blower I need a new gas can. I bought one, a plastic one with the anti-spill spout, filled it on the way home, & added the Sta-Bil's. When I got home and tried to pour the fuel into the snow blower which required getting a little thing on the spout pushed in by the lip of the gas tank, the damned anti-spill devoce snapped off. Now, to ise the damned thing I have to use oje hand to hold the gas can and the other to manually push up the remnants of the anti-spill device to get the fuel to pour.

Yeah, I agree with you; these "advancements" suck.