What do they call gas in America?
What do they call gas in America? Well, a lot of countries have their own term for what is generally called gasoline in American English. Americans call it “gas”, short for gasoline, Brits call it “petrol”, short for petroleum. Why do the British say petrol? gas. As in Natural gas (which is pumped into houses for cooking etc) or Helium, Hydrogen, Oxygen, you know GASES. We call petroleum petrol because we shorten the full and proper word for the substance we use in our cars etc. What do they call gasoline in England? Carless registered a number of alternative names...