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		Spivak on Sept 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google says its carbon footprint is now zero It might be a US-ism? I've never heard anyone in casual conversion call it gasoline or petrol. You would get weird looks if you called it gasoline. "You fill up your gas tank at the gas station and get a gas can just in case you get low on gas before you can hit the next station to gas up."

chrisseaton on Sept 14, 2020 [–]

Not hard to see how it's confusing - you call it gas but it's not a gas, it's a liquid.

Spivak on Sept 14, 2020 | [–]

But it’s just a case of a word with two meanings that depends on context. That’s like the least weird thing that happens in English.

“You call returned soldiers vets, but they don’t work with animals.”

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