Petrol

Xeon SX · June 23rd, 2005, 11:21 AM

why do u call it gas in US?

Shadowness · June 23rd, 2005, 11:23 AM

abbreviation of the word gasoline. Thats wot i thought anyway.

The_Finn · June 23rd, 2005, 2:52 PM

yup... because saying gas is easier than saying gasoline exactly like petrol vs. petoleum as for where the term gasoline comes from i have no idea

TF

Shadowness · June 23rd, 2005, 4:11 PM

yeh thats wot i was thinkin, dont no where gasoline comes from. images/smilies/mellow.gif

Xeon SX · June 23rd, 2005, 7:26 PM

but there are cars that run on gas, what would u call those then?

Raven18940 · June 23rd, 2005, 8:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Xeon SX

but there are cars that run on gas, what would u call those then?

Stupid.

Xeon SX · June 23rd, 2005, 9:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Raven18940

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Originally Posted by Xeon SX

but there are cars that run on gas, what would u call those then?

Stupid.

not that I am fan of those cars but they have their reason for existance. I live in London where traffic jams cannot be avoided so fuel consumption is what I worry the most. Now these cars are made just with this in mind although I dont know if you can buy them from a dealer, all I know is it can be converted for $200 from a petrol 1.

massy · June 23rd, 2005, 9:21 PM

In France gasoile is diesel, must be confusing for Americans?

mathie · June 23rd, 2005, 9:31 PM

It's gazole and it's also called diesel in France

chaos386 · June 23rd, 2005, 10:35 PM

What I want to know is why the brits call it petrol. Petroleum is the unrefined form found in the ground, not what you put in your car...

pe·tro·le·um
n.
A thick, flammable, yellow-to-black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the earth's surface, can be separated into fractions including natural gas, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, fuel and lubricating oils, paraffin wax, and asphalt and is used as raw material for a wide variety of derivative products.

Leppy · June 24th, 2005, 6:01 AM

We call it petrol in australia too.

Dr. Woo · June 24th, 2005, 7:56 AM

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Originally Posted by chaos386

What I want to know is why the brits call it petrol. Petroleum is the unrefined form found in the ground, not what you put in your car...

pe·tro·le·um
n.
A thick, flammable, yellow-to-black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the earth's surface, can be separated into fractions including natural gas, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, fuel and lubricating oils, paraffin wax, and asphalt and is used as raw material for a wide variety of derivative products.

Then we have the definition of gasoline:

gas·o·line
n.
A volatile mixture of flammable liquid hydrocarbons derived chiefly from crude petroleum and used principally as a fuel for internal-combustion engines.

And vehicles powered by "gas" are actually powered by what's called "natural gas." Since there are so few of them, we don't really need to abbreviate the term and just say "natural gas."

ezrollers · June 29th, 2005, 3:08 PM

A car that runs on gas as in natural gas, isn't that lpg (liquified petroleum gas)?

So it should be

gas(oline) for gas or petrol
diesel for diesel, i think that is universal
lpg for natural gasc

Really don't understand why it's called petrol here (UK), but then again a public school here, it's not really public, in the sense that in a you do actually have to pay at the point of delivery, so on and so forth, nothing surprises me about the English.

bone · June 29th, 2005, 4:46 PM

lpg isn't the same as natural gas

natural gas is the stuff you get out of the soil, nothing done with it
lpg stands for liquified petrol gas, and is the stuff you get when you distilate crude oil, in gas form, and when you compress it, it liquifies

haz · June 29th, 2005, 4:49 PM

here we call gas = bensin images/smilies/smile.gif

haz

Z Draci · June 30th, 2005, 7:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Xeon SX

why do u call it gas in US?

Because we're weird like that.

Dr. Woo · June 30th, 2005, 8:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Z Draci

Because we're weird like that.

Actually, according to the definitions chaos and I looked up, the English are the weird ones. images/smilies/wink.gif

ezrollers · June 30th, 2005, 3:39 PM

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Originally Posted by bone

lpg isn't the same as natural gas

natural gas is the stuff you get out of the soil, nothing done with it
lpg stands for liquified petrol gas, and is the stuff you get when you distilate crude oil, in gas form, and when you compress it, it liquifies

I just assumed that it was lpg
Didn't know there were cars running on natural gas

bone · June 30th, 2005, 5:09 PM

^neither did i actually :s

bihus · July 1st, 2005, 2:12 AM

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Originally Posted by bone

^neither did i actually :s

AFAIK, at least here, only buses run on natural gas.

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ezrollers Joined: Dec 15th, 2004 Last Online: March 10th, 2007 Posts: 70 Rep Power: 0	A car that runs on gas as in natural gas, isn't that lpg (liquified petroleum gas)? So it should be gas(oline) for gas or petrol diesel for diesel, i think that is universal lpg for natural gasc Really don't understand why it's called petrol here (UK), but then again a public school here, it's not really public, in the sense that in a you do actually have to pay at the point of delivery, so on and so forth, nothing surprises me about the English. __________________ I am chagrined and bewildered

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bone "bangle for president" Joined: Jan 14th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: belgium!! Age: 25 Posts: 6,506 Car: yamaha banshee (and an opel astra from work) Rep Power: 40	lpg isn't the same as natural gas natural gas is the stuff you get out of the soil, nothing done with it lpg stands for liquified petrol gas, and is the stuff you get when you distilate crude oil, in gas form, and when you compress it, it liquifies

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haz I AM OT! Joined: May 28th, 2004 Last Online: 1:04 AM Location: Oslo, Norway Age: 29 Posts: 3,604 Car: '70 VW, '96 Merc C200 Sport (only 2 down from 4..) Rep Power: 29	here we call gas = bensin haz __________________ Jeremy loves the W202

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bone "bangle for president" Joined: Jan 14th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: belgium!! Age: 25 Posts: 6,506 Car: yamaha banshee (and an opel astra from work) Rep Power: 40	^neither did i actually :s

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