What is the difference between gasoline and petrol?
Difference between Petrol and GasolineKey Difference: Petrol and gasoline are two different terms for the same fuel that is used in an internal combustion engine. Petrol and gasoline are actually the same thing; just different words. These two words have the same meaning, with the only difference being in the places where the words are used. The term ‘petrol’ is used in UK, India and a few other places, while ‘gasoline’ or ‘gas for short’ is used in the United States. That is the only difference between the two terms.The process of creating petrol includes drilling for crude oil. The oil drilled from the ground is then sent to a refiner. At the refinery, heat is used to separate out different products at boiling points. The oil is then sent through a distillation process where it is applied with heat and pressure causing a chemical reaction. The application of heat and pressure determines if the product becomes petrol or diesel. Following distillation, the fuel is blended with additives that help improve the quality of the fuel. The crude oil is composed of various hydrocarbons that differ in composition. These different hydrocarbons are what make the different products that are derived from the oil. Simple hydrocarbons such as CH4, C2H6, C3H8, and C4H10 are light gases and are used in solvents for paints. The other longer chains of hydrocarbons are used to create fuel.Petrol, also known as Gasoline, is a transparent fuel derived from crude oil and is used as fuel in internal combustion engines. The term petrol is used to refer to the fuel in UK, India, Republic of Ireland and many other places, while it is known as gas in US and Canada. Petrol is made by distilling crude oil at a certain temperature. Petrol is made from the longer hydrocarbon chains found in crude oil: C5 to C12. The C5 to C12 hydrocarbon chains are liquid at room temperature and are blended to create petrol. Petrol contains a mixture of paraffins, napthenes, aromatics and olefins. Petrol is separated from crude oil from 40°C to 205°C. Gasoline has a high volatile rate, which is controlled by blending it with butane. According to the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA), “Gasoline blends differ, and therefore actual energy content varies according to the season and producer by up to 4% more or less than the average.”
Why is petroleum important?
Petroleum is important not because of its benefits, but because of the energy forces at play in the US and Internationally. In 1979 a nuclear power plant in the US failed. Three Mile Island. No new nuclear power plants have been built since then. Only reactors started before 1979 were completed after that failure. If the US had been able to continue building and innovating in nuclear technology, we may not have the dependence we have on foreign oil now. It is possible we wouldn't use cars for travel. We all might be on commuter trains powered by electricty. Petroleum is important because we don't have an alternative. Public fear is catered to and the successful containment of the accident at Three Mile Island is interpreted as if it were a Chernobyl-type catastrophe. Now we are stuck with oil for the forseeable future. Alternatives are given lip-service, but nothing will happen until the nation is crippled with gas prices that can't be afforded. Hybrid cars are the best alternative today because it actually reduces the use of gasoline. Electric cars don't help much because the electricity that they use is made with coal and gas and will only increase the use of oil and pollution that goes with them. Hydrogen cells don't have a delivery system and are still too volitile for public use at this time. It isn't outside the realm of possibility that we could have been able to produce a power cell based on nuclear technology that could be used as a nearly unlimited energy supply for all things that need gas or electricty today. Since 1979, there has been enough time, if resources had been seriously diverted to the alternative power source need -- as if there was a looming crisis -- that there actually was. (And still IS!)
Why do american people call liquid petrol: "gas"?
You should totally start a drive to educate everyone on how to correctly label the type of fuel we use in our lawnmowers; it's that important. You could start a facebook page "People who hate people who call gasoline 'gas' for convenience purposes instead of refined liquid petroleum product". Most people would join your cause by clicking "like".Once enlightened, we can all start teaching the next generation that it's NOT ok to refer to refined liquid petroleum product for internal combustion engines as simply "gas". The way you have approached this extremely vital subject, your cordiality and positive view of American's grasp of scientific principles related to fuel labels will most assuredly win over the hearts of others, creating mass sympathy for your cause. Kudos!
Will electric cars make gas cheaper?
Yes, this is basic supply-demand economics. * In fact, especially so, because petroleum companies do not actually compete with each other (prices are controlled by cartel instead.) If there were really legitimate competition between gasoline producers, as capitalism is designed to create, we would not be seeing record profits by oil companies. Petroleum is currently the most profitable industry on earth. * Instead, profits would be razor-thin as the gas companies undercut each others' prices to get market share. And the weakest petroleum companies would go broke. When was the last time a petroleum company went out of business?? * Electric cars represent the first true competition to gasoline in a century. You'd better believe that oil companies see this as a serious threat to their profits. Most of the aniti-EV rhetoric you see in the media originates from oil interests. * When electric cars begin to really take market share from oil companies, a few things will happen. First, the propaganda gloves will come off, and you will see many more (mainly bogus) smears of EV technology in the media. Second, the petroleum industry will try to use their legislative influence to impose fees, restrictions, or maybe even outright attempt to ban many electric cars. * And if all this fails, gasoline prices will tumble. Petroleum producers will finally be forced to bow to competitive pressure, and cut into their profits to give us lower gasoline prices - in order to keep people from fleeing gasoline and buying electric cars instead. * This is why we should ALL support electric cars, even if you have no interest in ever driving one. Competition means lower prices. Give petroleum some actual market competition, and make them deal with real capitalism for a change.
Why do people prefer petrol cars over diesel cars?
Price: Of course , while buying a car the first thing comes in the mind is its price. Diesel cars are costly as compared to the petrol ones of same segment.You can save around Rs 70,000 to Rs 1,20,000 per car if you go for petrol ones.Maintenance: The maintenance is very less for petrol cars when it is compared with the diesel.The design of diesel engines is quite complex which needs to be serviced regularly whereas, petrol cars doesn't need that much services.Noise: Diesel cars are quite noisy. Infact, they create problems especially in cold weather.They need ignition to get started in cold weather while, this is not the case with petrol engines.Power: Petrol, being the more efficient fuel than diesel produces more power Acceleration is somewhat smoother in petrol cars.Eco-friendly: Lastly, petrol engine releases less effluents than diesel, which makes it more environment friendly.I know nobody buys a petrol car just because it is less polluting.
Why do Americans call petrol "gas"?
All cultures have different words all across the world. You say petrol we say gas, some people say telli and we say tv. In aussie you all have a unique way of talking because your speech is a combination of many other languages. In one side of aussie one term could mean something completely different from the other. Example: in Queensland isn't Rosella a type of fruit, but in Northern NSW there are known as birds. Aussie is known to have British English Influence (adding UK english to aussie vocab), Irish English Influence (adding Irish english to aussie vocab), 20th century Australian English (contributed in WW1), Contemporary Australian English Influence (the Americanization of Australian English (mix of UK and USA), and so on. And im not Australian ;o) lol
What home made fuel can we use instead of petrol in motorbike and car?
Most petrol vehicles will run on any distilled spirit with no modifications. Ethanol, or alcohol made from grain being preferred. The spirit should have no, or as few as possible, dissolved impurities and no sediment. You can distil alcohol at home from almost any grain, fruit or vegetable matter. Most diesel vehicles will run on vegetable oil with no modifications. Some will run on waste vegetable oil, I.e. oil that has been used for frying, with small modifications. In both cases, the simpler the engine, the better. Older designs, with more mechanical controls are better than newer ones with control computers. Update: I forgot to mention, over the long term, using a non-standard fuel will most definitely damage the engine.
Why is crude oil as expensive as refined gasoline?
Well, for one, a barrel is 42 gallons of crude Strangely enough though, only about half of that after refining is gasoline. There are several more products however that come from the residuals. There is a net gain from the additives included in the refining process. one 42 gallon barrell of oil results in approximately 49 gallons of petroleum products. Some of these products like petroleum based lubricants sell for much higher prices than a gallon of gasoline. For instance a spray lubricant that is petroleum based may sell for 2 or 3 dollars but only be 12 ounces in volume. If 50% of the refined product (approx 24.5 gallons) are made into products that sell for much higher prices than gasoline, then the gasoline portion needs to attain less sale price to make up the difference. For instance, if the 24.5 gallons of other products that come from one barrell of refined oil can sell for $500 and thwe 24.5 gallons of gas sell for $3.00 a gallon, then the cost of the crude is much lower than the final product. Take a random product for instance. "CRC 3-36" industrial lubricant. It is a petroleum based product derived from crude residuals from the refining process. This stuff sells for $7.00 for an 11 ounce can. As there are 128 ounces in a gallon, then one gallon of the stuff would sell for $81 per gallon. With part of the barrel going for this type of price after refining, you will find that the cost of crude being compared to the price of gasoline is fairly insignificant compared to the potential profit in the other products. Theoretically you could pay more for a gallon of the crude than you sell a gallon of the gas and still make profit off the other products. See the last link for information on types of actual profit derived from one barrel