Why do people living in the US use gas as a term for vehicle fuel (petrol/diesel)?
Why do people living in the US use gas as a term for vehicle fuel (petrol/diesel)?
I mean, I could understand if they used natural gas as fuel for vehicles (which I know they don't), but they only use it in households. It makes no sense 🤷.
It's short for gasoline, which is the term for refined petroleum.
Which originates from Cazelline, named after the businessman who patented it, which quickly morphed into gasoline, but not because of anything to do with gas as a state of matter, as far as I can tell.
Oh... that makes sense 😁.
What term do you use for gasoline? Has Europe assigned petrol for gasoline?
Petrol or petroleum is diesel or gasoline by definition. If you say or petrol in you tank you are basically saying put fuel in your tank without specifying what it is.
Yeah, we use petrol and diesel. Petrol is the refined stuff (as far as I know), diesel is the less refined stuff (ignition by compression, not spark). You say petrol for regular gasoline, diesel for the less refined stuff.
checking in from an european country; for petrol, we say "benzin" and for diesel we either call it just "dízel(olaj)" or "gázolaj" (olaj -> oil, so they translate roughly to diesel-oil or gas-oil)
for the fuel that gas operated cars use we have the "autógáz" word, which means... well, car-gas
The yanks insist it is short for gasolene, but it is actually short for the name of the guy who marketed it in their country. Like saying "hoover" for vacuum cleaner or "wettex" for sponge.
It always sounds wrong to me as we have both gas (natural gas) and liquid petrol (refined oil) powered cars, as well as deisel cars. What they call gas is a liquid. But no one said language has to make sense I guess. Diesel, btw, is also a name based on a persons name.....
Diesel, btw, is also a name based on a persons name....
Vin Diesel?
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My rock oil is named after some John.
It is short for gasoline.
I'm in USA, and I say diesel because I use diesel.