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Ancient sunlight, distilled into dinosaur tears, that you set on fire to run errands.
means A flammable liquid fuel refined from petroleum, used to power most internal-combustion engines.
from Coined in the mid-19th century by stacking 'gas' (itself a 17th-century invention by Flemish chemist J.B. van Helmont, who built it on the Greek 'chaos') onto the oil-suffix '-ol' (from Latin 'oleum,' oil) plus the chemical ending '-ine.' British English kept its own word, 'petrol,' a clipping of 'petroleum'—literally 'rock oil,' from Latin 'petra' (rock) and 'oleum' (oil).
- former trash
- Once dumped as useless kerosene-refining waste
- energy dense
- One gallon holds energy of 500 hours human labor
- octane game
- Higher numbers resist knocking, not boost power
- once leaded
- Tetraethyl lead poisoned generations before 1996 ban
- spark only
- Liquid won't burn; only its vapor ignites
shell v power — premium fuel brand sold by shell across europe and asia since 1995
exxon mobil synergy — branded gasoline with detergents sold by exxonmobil in north america
chevron techron — premium gasoline with additive package by chevron, widely distributed in us