random thought #1

not sure what made me think of this just now, but......... why is it that over here (in canada and the US), we say that we are going to the gas station, when we are actually going to the liquid station? in many other places in the world, people say that they are going to the "petrol" station. that makes mores sense, since they are supposedly going to buy petroleum. we obviously must be shortening the word "gasoline", so in THIS case it actually makes more sense, since it is a product DERIVED from petroleum. this would make the rest of the world wrong, because they are actually not filling up with petroleum, but gasoline. i just think it sounds odd that people say "put gas in the car", since that is obviously not the case.........