The Off Topic Topic

[Tamas]

Gasoline is diesel. 

Maybe European gasoline is diesel, but American gasoline is gasoline.

Well one continent has it way mistaken.

[Maximus]

You probably could use gasoline as a diesel fuel if the engine was designed for it, but there would be little point in designing such an engine.

[Ed Anger]

Next, the Biscuit vs Cookie debate

[HVC]

Gasoline is diesel. 

Maybe European gasoline is diesel, but American gasoline is gasoline.

Well one continent has it way mistaken.

if gasoline is diesel why have two terms. Inflammable means flammable? What a country!

[Ed Anger]

I'm glad the US didn't intervene in '56.

[garbon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline

In many countries, gasoline has a colloquial name derived from that of the chemical benzene (e.g., German Benzin, Dutch benzine, Italian benzina, Polish benzyna, Chile bencina, Thai เบนซิน bayn sin , Greek βενζίνη venzini, Romanian benzină, Swedish bensin, Arabic بنزين binzīn). Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay use the colloquial name nafta derived from that of the chemical naphtha.

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Gasoline

In Canada and the United States, the word "gasoline" is commonly used and it is often shortened to simply "gas" although it is a liquid rather than a gas. In fact, gasoline-dispensing facilities are referred to as "gas stations".

Most current or former Commonwealth countries use the term "petrol" and their dispensing facilities are referred to as "petrol stations". The term "petrogasoline" is also used sometimes. In some European countries and elsewhere, the term "benzin" (or a variant of that word) is used to denote gasoline.

[DGuller]

Gasoline is diesel. 

Maybe European gasoline is diesel, but American gasoline is gasoline.

Well one continent has it way mistaken.

  You call diesel gasoline, and you call gasoline petroleum?  It's like all the hydrocarbons look the same to you people.

[Maximus]

if gasoline is diesel why have two terms. Inflammable means flammable? What a country!

Diesel is a type of engine. Diesel fuel is the fuel you burn in such an engine. According to wiki, gasoline is an ambiguous term used to refer to petroleum since the 16th century. It has as much intrinsic meaning as petrol.

[DGuller]

I'm glad the US didn't intervene in '56.

All our tanks would stall and die after the first refuelling.

[Ed Anger]

I'm glad the US didn't intervene in '56.

All our tanks would stall and die after the first refuelling.

Wait a minute, you meaning Soviet, right Comrade?

[Ed Anger]

I hate commas

[DGuller]

I'm glad the US didn't intervene in '56.

All our tanks would stall and die after the first refuelling.

Wait a minute, you meaning Soviet, right Comrade?

[Tamas]

Gasoline is diesel. 

Maybe European gasoline is diesel, but American gasoline is gasoline.

Well one continent has it way mistaken.

  You call diesel gasoline, and you call gasoline petroleum?  It's like all the hydrocarbons look the same to you people.

We, as in Hungarians, call the stuff fueling diesel engines "gasoline" and the other type of car fuel we call "benzine"

[Iormlund]

In Spain we do it like the Yanks. We say 'gasolina' for gas, 'gasóleo' (often just 'diesel') for diesel. Except we don't shorten 'gasolina' to 'gas'. 'Gasofa', at most.

[derspiess]

In Spain we do it like the Yanks. Except we don't shorten 'gasolina' to 'gas'. 'Gasofa', at most.

In Argentina it's "nafta"