question for a yank about gas?

Im glad u asked that question Guy!!

The following are answers:

1.The gas used by machines are exchanged through photosynthesis and what i call "Yokonarama **** ! " where the gas has sex with ur mothers son.

2.Are you intensionally pissSing me off ? becasuse i killL peeeps who do that!

3.Where am I?

thanks :D

The gas that is used for central heating and cooking can be :natural gas,propane,heating oil,kerosene even diesel. Gas is merely an abriviation for gasoline as petrol is an abriviation for petroleum spirit.

Before gasoline was used as fuel for engines, it was sold in small bottles as a treatment against lice and their eggs. At that time, the word Petrol was a trade name. This treatment method is no longer common because of the inherent fire hazard and the risk of dermatitis.[citation needed]

In the United States, gasoline was also sold as a cleaning fluid to remove grease stains from clothing. Before dedicated filling stations were established, early motorists bought gasoline in cans to fill their tanks.

The name gasoline is similar to that of other petroleum products of the day, most notably petroleum jelly, a highly purified heavy distillate, which was branded Vaseline. The trademark Gasoline was never registered, and eventually became generic.

Gasoline was also used in kitchen ranges and for lighting, and is still available in a highly purified form, known as camping fuel or white gas, for use in lanterns and portable stoves.

During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), pétrole was stockpiled in Paris for use against a possible German-Prussian attack on the city. Later in 1871, during the revolutionary Paris Commune, rumours spread around the city of pétroleuses, women using bottles of petrol to commit arson against city buildings

Gas is short for gasoline, and as such is fairly specific. Petrol is short for petroleum, a very general word which could also refer to diesel fuel, kerosene, lubricating oil or even paraffin wax.

They use the name 'gasoline' for petrol and shorten it to 'gas'. Gas for cooking etc, they call propane (even if it isn't pure).

gasoline,stove/heating oil. does that help? we also have ethanol methane,propane,butane,diesel,kerosene,jetfuel(usually the same as kerosene)natural gas,nitromethane woohoo,and even aviation gas.i believe gasoline at one time was a trademark for a national fuel chain and now its moved from slang to accepted language.btw we have almost as many morons as you. aint that neat. we might be a nation of morons,but heck the apple dont fall far from the tree does it.

petrol is called gasoline as it is a distillate from oil along with kerosene

it is from the dutch/ german languages

gas fuel is called by its name ie PROPANE and it is called GAS pronounced "GAZ"

it's short for gasoline, even i know that and i've never been to America.

Its because the majority of yanks are morons..Petrol is quite a big word..Gas is simple to spell n easy to remember.