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 🤷.

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    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.

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      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.

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        Ya both terms are a bit confusing. I think the refining levels are about the same other then diesel is done at a higher temp among other process. For automotive anyhow. There is a less refined process for bunker fuel or some off road applications but mostly shipping.

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      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