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Template:WP1.0 There was a proposal concerning this article's title - whether it should be moved to Petrolium-based fuel. The unanimous consensus was to keep the original editor's title. The page is currently protected from moving, and any attempts to move it will be reverted.

For previous discussion see #Requested Move.

There was a dispute about this article's title - whether it should be moved to Petrol. Many arguments have been presented for both sides. After all else failed, consensus was to keep the original editor's title, as per the Wikipedia:Manual of Style:

"If all else fails, consider following the spelling style preferred by the first major contributor (that is, not a stub) to the article."

The page is currently protected from moving, and any attempts to move it will be reverted.

For previous discussion see Archive 2 for the extent of the dispute.

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Error

"Hydrogen 25.7 MJ/litre" ... Well ! But for what pressure ? Or is it liquid hydrogen? Does not seem to be explicit!

Broken Link on this page

The link, Gasoline Images - Vintage American gas station and fuel dispenser stock photography, link courtesy of http://www.coolstock.com Links to a 404... Am I allowed to fix/remove it?

Super

From Super:

In Australia and New Zealand, as well as in continental Europe, Super was the name for a number of years commonly given to leaded high octane petrol (gasoline). Originally the name denoted premium leaded petrol, as opposed to Standard, which was non-premium leaded petrol. However, with the introduction of unleaded petrol in the early 1980s, Standard petrol was discontinued, leaving only Super, which then became a synonym for leaded petrol in general. This continued until the late 1990s, when leaded petrol began to be eliminated in favour of various different blends of unleaded petrol contain special additives for use with leaded vehicles. The name of these blends varies from oil company to oil company.

Price Calculating/Converting

I have noticed the Australian fuel price is out of date seeing as Petrol has dropped in price significantly over the last few weeks ($1.40/litre listed here, its now down around $1.10/litre). I am hopeless at maths but have used the Google Calculator to convert it to $US/gallon (it says $AUD1.11/litre = $US3.13/gallon) but I am not sure how accurate it is. Could someone with the skills to do so calculate this correctly? or... could someone list the equation for this type of conversion? Nickuss - 4 October 2006.

Possible math error on energy content table

I'm not an expert, but the energy content of gasoline is listed as approximately 32 MJ/l or 131 MJ/USgal. I think perhaps that should be 121 MJ/USgal, assuming about 3.79 l/USgal. Could someone in charge of this article please check that? Thanks for maintaining this great information resource! SteveVTS 16 Nov 2006.

Contradictory numbers in Energy Content table

This isn't my field of expertise, but I noticed what seem to be some contradictory numbers or bad conversions in the Energy Content table. For example, Aviation Gasoline is shown as having a lower number of MJ/liter and BTU/gallon than Regular Gasoline, which doesn't sound right. But when converted to MJ/kg, the number is higher than gasoline.

D'oh

Don`t you see, this is not picture of gasoline? Gas can, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GasCan.jpg