Petrol station, filling station, garage, services, supermarkets, truckstops, fuel depot are all terms used, some less common than others; 'We need to get some fuel at the next petrol station' is commonly used.
A residential garage (UK: /ˈɡærɑːʒ, -rɑːdʒ, -rɪdʒ/ GARR-ahzh, -ahj, -ij, US: /ɡəˈrɑːʒ, -rɑːdʒ/ gə-RAHZH, -RAHJ) is a walled, roofed structure with a door for storing a vehicle or vehicles that may be part of or attached to a home ("attached garage"), or a separate outbuilding or shed ("detached garage").
In American English, the liquid that is used as fuel for vehicles is also called gas, or gasoline. I'm sorry I'm late. I had to stop for gas. In British English, this liquid is called petrol.
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Do British people say petrol instead of gas?
Those in Britain (and most 'Commonwealth' countries) use "petrol" as a shortened version of "Petroleum". Americans use "gas" as a shortened version of "gasoline." It's much the same way that what Americans call "acetominophen" we call “paracetemol”.
Both "filling station" and "fueling station" are used to refer to a place where vehicles can refuel with gasoline or diesel. The choice between these terms often depends on regional variations in English and personal preferences.
Origins. The evolution of house music in the United Kingdom in the early to mid-1990s led to the term, as previously coined by the Paradise Garage DJs, being applied to a new form of music known as speed garage.
After deliberation on other appeal cases where railway stations, retail outlets, hospitals, supermarkets were all held to be public place, i.e. you could drive on without restriction, it was held the forecourt was a public place so her conviction was upheld.
Gas station is a shortened version of gasoline station. Petrol is not the same as petroleum. Petroleum (which means “rock oil”) is another name for crude oil. Crude oil is the raw material, and gasoline or petrol are the refined products which are sold at filling stations.
Number of petrol stations in the United Kingdom by brand 2022. As of December 2022, the United States' multinational oil and gas firm Esso owned 1,236 petrol stations in the United Kingdom. Ranking second, the British multinational company BP owned 1,191 petrol stations.
A full tank can give you a bit better fuel pressure. If your pump, filter, and pressure regulator are good it will have no positive effect. A full tank will increase the weight, change the weight distribution, and prevent weight shift during cornering and acceleration, all of which can affect acceleration and handling.
Fuel costs have soared in recent weeks with the average price of petrol reaching a record high of 185p, but that doesn't mean petrol forecourts are getting more money. In fact, each sale is making filling stations mere pence, according to garages in Wales.
In the United Kingdom, diesel fuel for road use is commonly called diesel or sometimes white diesel if required to differentiate it from a subsidised agricultural-only product containing an identifying coloured dye known as red diesel.
Americans call petrol gas. What do they call gas then? We call your petrol gasoline or gas. Natural gas is also gas, but we may say natural gas, butane or propane.
Petrol is a fuel derived from petroleum. If you are American, you probably call petrol "gas." When the price of petrol goes up, lots of people complain, because petrol is gasoline.
It's actually called “gasoline” which is liquid. “Gas” is merely a shortened form of the longer word. It's a bit like Brits using the word “petrol” for petroleum. It's a liquid, but totally unsuitable as a fuel until it's further refined.
“Gas is short for gasoline, in Australia it's a petrol station, petrol is short for petroleum you can also call it a servo,” Katy explained, adding Aussies get “really salty” when you refer to servos as “gas stations”.
