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Petrol

abbreviation of the word gasoline. Thats wot i thought anyway.
 
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
 
Raven18940 said:
Xeon SX said:
but there are cars that run on gas, what would u call those then?
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Stupid. :lol:
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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.
 
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.
 
chaos386 said:
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.
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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."
 
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.
 
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
 
here we call gas = bensin :)

haz
 
Re: Petrol

Z Draci said:
Because we're weird like that.
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Actually, according to the definitions chaos and I looked up, the English are the weird ones. ;)
 
bone said:
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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I just assumed that it was lpg
Didn't know there were cars running on natural gas
 
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