Wie Benzin auf der ganzen Welt genannt wird

in places where gasoline is referred to as „naphtha“ or „benzene“, what are naphtha and benzene called??

edit: thank you all so much for weighing in from your countries!! I absolutely love knowing these proper words and their pronunciations! this is fascinating

i thought it was „guzzoline“ in Oz, based on the documentary Mad Max…

Naphta in Ukrainian is oil that you drill and Benzen is what you get in the car. We also say fuel (паливо)

Here in India refueling points are called [Petrol Pumps](https://zeenews.india.com/photos/auto/why-is-it-called-a-petrol-pump-and-not-a-diesel-pump-explained-simply-3016373#:~:text=pump%3F%20Explained%20simply-,Why%20is%20it%20called%20a%20petrol%20pump%20and%20not%20a%20diesel%20pump%3F,-Explained%20simply).

Not much porn about maps on the forum nowadays.

Where are scanned old map books?

It’s all shitty stats or subjects.

Arab world is definitely wrong, Gulf states use Petrol, and the Maghreb uses Essence/Pétrole

(بترول and اسونس)

What about polish „paliwo“? (I knoe that it’s used for both gasoline and diesel, but still)

The origin of the word “gasoline” is interesting. It has nothing to do with “gas” as in the state of matter.

Instead, there was a 19th century English temperance campaigner and publisher called John Cassell. He thought that people got drunk because they didn’t have ready access to good reading material (really!)

So he became one of the first publishers to issue cheap editions of classic books. Go to a second hand book shop even now and you have a good chance of finding the cheap cloth-bound Cassell’s editions of Dickens, Austen, Eliot, Walter Scott and the Brontes.

There was a problem though: it was hard to read at night, and that’s when people went out drinking. So he set up a refinery in East London to produce a lamp oil that he thought would be better and less smelly than kerosene or whale oil, at that time the dominant lamp oils.

He marketed it as Cassell-ine. Within a few years it became “gasoline”. But it was decades before anyone thought of putting it in an automobile, or even thought of an automobile at all — gasoline is a product of the 1860s, long before Diesel invented the internal combustion engine.

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Since Canada is officially bilingual, it is called both Gasoline and Essence.

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In Mexico it’s huachicol

Chile should be turquoise, *bencina* is the term used there.

Oddly enough, also a map of British imperialism!

Holup is that why it’s named Esso

im argentine, i thought naphta and gasoline were completely different things

Highly incorrect

One litre of essence please

What about gas avión or turbosina?