[dboreham]

Montana here. If you have a petrol pickup you're considered a bit of a sissy. Diesel is what you want to demonstrate masculinity. Electric. Yeah no.

[windowshopping]

do people in the west really say petrol? east coaster here and never heard that outside of britain

[kylehotchkiss]

“gas” is ambiguous, especially when there are CNG vehicles on the road.

[filoleg]

I don’t think so. Been living in Seattle for almost 8 years, spent a lot of time in CA and Oregon as well. The only time I ever heard word “petrol” was in british media.

[ethanbond]

I grew up in Arizona around plenty of macho truck people and never heard “petrol.” I suspect an expat.

[elliotec]

No, never.

[msmith]

I'm going to guess dboreham is Canadian?

[red-iron-pine]

I'm in Alberta, aka North Montana. Can confirm Diesel is big here, tho there is arguably a practical need.

There is some anecdotal story about how Chevy had a batch of diesel Colorado trucks and they sold out couple hours hour they made them available online.

[dieselgate]

Gassers are better for starting in sub-0F temps, thought it would get that cold in Montana but guess it's location dependent