How do I get gas for a snow blower?

You can go to a gas station and get it filled.

Keep the can on the ground, fill it slow, and don’t use your cell phone.

Is it a 4-stroke-cycle engine? If it is a 2-stroke-cycle, you will have to get some “2-cycle” oil and mix it with the gas in the correct ratio. No rules on jerry cans. You might want to get a different can. Jerry cans can leak a lot of gas!

@talljasperman Please have a responsible adult accompany you to the gas station. haha

Different jurisdictions have different requirements for the types of approved containers. In the USA (and in Canada, I presume) commercial plastic or metal containers designed and sold as “gasoline containers” can be used. (I used to use a one-gallon glass jug in a boat, for storage of gas to be used in a small outboard; I doubt if anyone would allow me to fill that at a gas station – the nozzle wouldn’t fit the bottle’s mouth, anyway – but it worked for that application.)

As others have said, put the can on the ground before and as you fill it, but they didn’t say the reason for that. Vehicles, and the fuel pump itself, can develop static electricity charges that will be dissipated if the can is on the ground and the pump is grounded as it should be. Otherwise, a spark can be generated between the fuel pump nozzle and the container on, say, the back of a pickup truck or the trunk of a car, and that is an explosion hazard with an “empty” gasoline container.

One fact about gasoline containers that a lot of people miss: It’s the empty ones that are the most dangerous. Gasoline is an explosive gas (vapor). It won’t actually burn “as a liquid” (if you’re going to experiment with that information, be very careful!), but an empty used gasoline container (or vehicle fuel tank) is filled with potentially explosive vapor. Also, as you fill the container or car tank, what comes out of that tank (displaced by the liquid) is… gasoline vapor. That is always an explosion hazard.

In NY you are only permitted to put gasoline in a container designed and labeled specifically for gasoline. Usually they are red plastic.
You just pull up to the pump, take the container out of your car and put it on the ground (also a requirement), and fill like you would fill a car. However, do not fill it all the way! Even a few spilled drops will stink up your car for days.
I keep multiple cans filled and ready all year. I use them up and replace them every few months so the gas is always fresh. I use gasoline to run my snowblowers, generator, chainsaw, tractor, truck and cars so it is important to have enough to last a long time.
I do.

@LuckyGuy – same in Calif.

Using a container specifically designed for gasoline is a very wise idea. Vapors from 1 gallon of gasoline = 1 stick of dynamite. BOOM!

@RocketGuy Really? Learn something new everyday. Sooo, it probably isn’t wise if a blonde takes a coconut milk carton to the gas station? lol

@Coloma – That would equal only a half stick of dynamite. No prob.