200
What Gasoline is called around the World (i.redd.it)
submitted 3 days ago by EfreetSK@lemmy.world to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
81 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/rgap1e/what_gasoline_is_called_around_the_world/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 days ago

A gas is not a liquid, change my mind

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago

[-] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_natural_gas

Substitute natural gas (SNG), or synthetic natural gas, is a fuel gas (predominantly methane, CH4) that can be produced from fossil fuels such as lignite coal, oil shale, or from biofuels (when it is named bio-SNG) or using electricity with power-to-gas systems.

So we've got "gas" in the US (short for "gasoline"), which is a liquid. There's liquified petroleum gas (LPG), which is also a liquid. And there's synthetic natural gas.

EDIT: Bonus: my understanding is that in Germany, an unqualified "gas" tends to refer to natural gas, which Germany is presently importing in liquid form (liquified natural gas, or LNG).

[-] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago

What's wrong with LPG?

Petrol is a liquid. When liquid petrol evaporates is becomes a gas. When gaseous petrol is compressed in a container as pictured it becomes a liquid until it is released and allowed to expand again, hence liquefied (compressed) petroleum gas.

[-] CelloMike@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Capacity 20993... whats? I can only assume mL and it's a forced perspective thing

[-] aeiou_ckr@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Looking at the sign on the tank I am guessing this is USA and that would be gallons so it would be roughly 79,467 liters or 79,467,150 milliliters.

[-] higgsboson@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It does look like 20K gallons by the size of it. That is about half as big as the large semi tankers that deliver gasoline.

[-] Atropos@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah units are kinda important for this sort of stuff.

Source: a certain mars mission

[-] msage@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

No, but it is fluid.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

I have never filled my car's tank with "a gas," I fill it with gas, which is short for gasoline. That abbreviation being a homonym for gas, a chemical phase, is merely an unfortunate coincidence.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I'll need to elevate the pressure and temperature a bit, but I think I can make the critical point.

this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2025
200 points (94.6% liked)

Map Enthusiasts

4841 readers
12 users here now

For the map enthused!

Rules:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
zksmk@sopuli.xyz
garfaagel@sh.itjust.works