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by ivan_gammel 903 days ago
> Natural gas was merely a name to differentiate between 'gasoline', short form 'gas' for many english speaking countries.

No, it has absolutely nothing to do with gasoline. Other languages, e.g. Russian, which don’t use the word gasoline also call it natural gas (coming from nature). This extra confusion is a late American thing.