A little help please

[SirRaven]

Sorry, but what is so bad about the wording?
"gas can" in my opinion is quite specific, since the only gas can in the game is the one you got from the storage room. The thing in which you have to pour the gas would be called "gas tank" or similar.

The problem people have had seems to have been the message appearing only when you click the digger and not the can. Thus, despite it saying "gas can" people are lead to believe it's talking about the digger. It's more a problem of the message timing than it is the wording when I think about it. As I said before, if philip mentioned the rust when the can was first retrieved, I could guarantee noone would have issues with that thinking it is the digger.

It is much like someone told to read aloud the color of this word: blue. Despite it obviously being red, the mind is tricked sometimes into quickly responding blue.

Of course, that could have been the whole intention of the "puzzle".