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Ancient sunlight, compressed into a liquid you set on fire to go to the supermarket.
means The refined liquid fuel, distilled from crude oil, that powers most internal-combustion engines — known as gasoline or gas in North America.
from Shortened from 'petroleum,' which stitches together the Latin 'petra' (rock, also behind 'petrify') and 'oleum' (oil) — literally 'rock oil,' the stuff that seeped from stone long before anyone learned to pump it. 'Petrol' itself was adopted as a trade name in the late 19th century and stuck in British and much of Commonwealth English, while America kept 'gasoline.'
- Age
- Made from organisms dead for millions of years
- Energy density
- Beats a same-weight lithium battery dozens of times over
- Octane lie
- Higher octane resists ignition, not adds power
- Color trick
- Naturally pale; dyed to mark grades and taxes
- Vapor danger
- The fumes, not the liquid, do the exploding
shell v2 fuel — shell's premium gasoline with added detergents, sold globally since the 1990s
bp ultimate — bp's high-octane petrol variant available across europe and asia
mobil 1 racing fuel — exxonmobil's specialized racing petrol used in f1 and motorsports
caltex techron fuel — chevron's branded petrol with fuel additives, sold in asia-pacific region