Yeah, don’t be afraid to fill up where it says gasolina. Don’t remember where. Just make sure it’s not diesel.
Got a can of naptha in the basement, was more expepensive than gas, also remembering white fuel for my colman stove and lantern.
Careful with that stuff. I’ve still got some Coleman fuel and the lantern. Don’t know what to do with it. At the camp ground I was trying to get the fire going a little better so I threw a half a styrofoam cup with it on the fire. Whoosh. It singed the hair on my arms under my wind breaker. Got the fire going though.
In my 30-plus years in the Air Force I’ve served in 17-different locations, in 9-different countries, on 6-different continents and I bought a lot of gas (and that is what I call it here in the USA…)
In Italy, it’s Benzina, in Germany and Iceland it’s Benzin, in the UK and Australia it’s Petro, in South Korea it’s Hallyu, in Japan it’s Gasorin, in Sapin it’s Gasolina, and in France it’s l’essence, and as we joked, it must smell better…
I’ve been to the middle-east and europe for work. They do have different names, but I’ve yet to see one that didn’t have the US equivalent name also in smaller letters.
Remembering my FIL, used gasoline to start the charcoal grill. One burnt hair story, flat top grill in a restaurant would not light, lifted it up and threw a match in, big flame whoosh. Bye bye eyebrows, luckily nothing else!
I remember back when I pumped gas in high school, many ole timers would come for gas saying: “Fill’er up with ethyl.”
I knew ethyl meant hi-test but didn’t know why it was called ethyl. In later years I learned the word was short for tetraethyl, an compound added to gasoline to boost its octane rating.
“Essence”, isn’t that what Emeril Legasse calls his version of Cajun seasoning?
White gas, or Napthelene is what was used to power early cars. The octane rating was about 50 so cars had 4:1 to 6:1 compression ratios. The earliest museum cars still use that as fuel.
Today’s gasoline has lots of extras to boost octane and clean the engine.
In the days when the available gasoline would not allow a compression ratio of over 6 to 1, the “F” head engine was ideal. The overhead intake valve could be larger because it did not have to share space with the block located exhaust valve.
One of my many 5 gallon gas cans is the Rubbermaid that was so popular 20+ years ago. I think it was made for the Canadian market because one side says “Gas”. The other side says: “Essence”.
Every time someone posts” Essense”, I hear it in Demongo’s voice.
Demongo ? Well once again I was sent to Google because I had no idea who or what that meant.
So did I, here is the explanation:
Demongo is a powerful, cowardly demon from the animated series Samurai Jack