What do you call gas?

If americans call petrol or petroleum gas, what do you call gas?? My car runs on both gas & petrol...but not gas & gas. Petroleum is a liquid, so how is it that it's called gas over there?

Gas... short for GASOLINE.

And I think they call diesel fuel, diesel OIL in other regions/countries. It sounds odd at first, but the stuff IS pretty greasy.

Petroleum is too thick & contaminated to be used in an internal combustion engine. It has to be distilled first. The result (gasoline) is what is used for fuel. But calling it GAS (short for gasoline) is no more or less accurate than calling it PETROL (short for petroleum spirits). Since GASoline isn't a gas, and petroleum SPIRITS don't have a soul.

None of this really matters, both 'petrol' and 'gas' are simply coined terms for the same thing, just used in different regions. I wonder why no one calls it 'Motor Spirits' anymore?

Oh, and I'm guessing the GAS you use in your car, is LPG (liquified petroleum gas) probably? In America we call it LPG, or we don't call it anything, since its virtually non-existent here.

lol I dunno
but here in the uk we call the liquid stuff that you fill your car up with Petrol

lpg is often called propane...and that's SOMETIMES a gas. is that what you're talking about? definitely need more info.

Chippo,

I think the car fuel version (LPG), has some added chemicals, that sets it apart from normal propane.

In Texas, propane is used in a lot of rural areas, for the home, as an alternative to 'natural gas' which is more city regulated. But LPG is extremely rare, which is something I hope will change.

Dallas's public transportation company, DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit), has a fleet of LNG buses (Liquified Natural Gas). But I don't know how well its catching on.

WOW...I thought that LPG would be widely used in the US, it's sad it isn't. Ahhh...yes GASoline.
From Wikipedia :
The word "gasolene" was coined in 1865 from the word gas and the chemical suffix -ine/-ene. The modern spelling was first used in 1871. The shortened form "gas" was first recorded in American English in 1905. Gasoline originally referred to any liquid used as the fuel for a gasoline-powered engine, other than diesel fuel or liquefied gas; methanol racing fuel would have been classed as a type of gasoline.
The word "petrol" was first used in reference to the refined substance as early as 1892 (it was previously used to refer to unrefined petroleum), and was registered as a trade name by British wholesaler Carless, Capel & Leonard at the suggestion of Frederick Richard Simms. Although it was never officially registered as a trademark, Carless's competitors used the term "Motor Spirit" until the 1930s. It has also been suggested that the word was coined by Edward Butler in 1887.
Gasoline (gas) or petroleum spirit (petrol) is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced with iso-octane or the aromatic hydrocarbons toluene and benzene to increase its octane rating, and is primarily used as fuel in internal combustion engines.
Most Commonwealth countries or former Commonwealth countries (with the exception of Canada) use the term "petrol" (abbreviated from petroleum spirit). The term "gasoline" is commonly used in North America where it is often shortened in colloquial usage to "gas." This should be distinguished in usage from genuinely gaseous fuels used in internal combustion engines such as liquefied petroleum gas (which is stored pressurised as a liquid but is allowed to return naturally to a gaseous state before combustion).
The term mogas, short for motor gasoline, distinguishes automobile fuel from aviation gasoline, or avgas. The word "gasoline" can also be used in British English to refer to a different petroleum derivative historically used in lamps, but this use is now uncommon.

I guess I've answered my own question.

Hmm... it looks more like Wikipedia answered it...

The guy can read & play with toys...what a champ.

Yes my purple princess, that's what "From Wikipedia" would mean...but I still answered my own question. That's how you learn...by researching stuff. I doubt their is an answer in your head that just grew there.

You never cease to amaze me with your observation skills.

Pity you run like a girl.