[Teever]

So what do you think we should rename it to?

[OrwellianChild]

"Natural Gas" is 97% methane, so it's probably most direct to just refer to it by it's primary component...

[badpun]

In Poland, it's called "Earth gas" or "ground gas".

[dskloet]

Also in Dutch: aardgas

[namibj]

And German: Erdgas.

[Faaak]

In some countries it is also called "city gas"

[Al-Khwarizmi]

City gas was obtained from distilling hard coal or, later, from gasoline. So not the same thing as natural gas.

[adrianN]

City gas is actually something else, it's coal gas.

[Faaak]

Yes, but it's still called that way

[VintageCool]

It has become popular to refer to it as "fossil gas".

[scotty79]

oil gas? carbon gas? fuel gas? fossil gas?