Re: " Windsplitters"

Mate,I think you'll find that Don C was being ever so slightly
sarcastic!! We are well acquainted with the peculiarities of
American "English".

--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "Herman R. Silbiger" <hsilbiger@i...>
wrote:

The stuff you put in your car is actually called gasoline, gas for

short

("I've got to gas up my car.")

The stuff that works your cook stove (range) is natural gas (also

gas

for short.)

The stuff you put in your lantern is kerosine (your paraffin.) Jet

fuel

is basically clean of kerosine.

Diesel trucks use diesel fuel.

They all come from crude.


Donald Campbell wrote:

Question: If the Americans call petrol "gas", what is the stuff

that

comes out of American stoves called? Regards, DeeCee

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