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Aloone_Jonez:
I had a feeling that, that would confuse the US readers.

Yes, gas = Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Petrol = gasoline.

LPG is basically propane and butane mix and is much better than petrol but as said above, it's expensive to convert your car to.


--- Quote ---  But we were locked in - upgrading to a new computer required upgrading to newer software
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Surely you could've just got some old P3s?

Windows 98 should run on them or you could've gone with XP or Linux and run Windows 98 under a VM.

Lead Head:
I find that VMs often have a lot of troubling communicating to devices plugged into the PC. I know (well at least pretty sure) its possible for them to pass through to ports and such, but I think its more trouble then its worth.

reactosguy:
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=124750

As a result of Microsoft's easy competing browser download screen, IE has lost 2.5% share in France, 1% in Britain and 1.3% in Italy from February to March. And it's surprising when you find out Opera Software has seen sky rocketing downloads in Italy, Spain and Poland!

worker201:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez on 18 March 2010, 11:30 ---I had a feeling that, that would confuse the US readers.

Yes, gas = Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Petrol = gasoline.

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In the US, we call that LNG (liquefied natural gas) or CNG (compressed natural gas).  It's used for buses and garbage trucks, but I've never seen it used for personal automobiles, and you can't just go to a store/station and buy it the way you can get diesel or gasoline.

Lead Head:
There are some conversion kits to run cars on CNG, but finding a place to fill up is quite hard, but you do get decent fuel economy from what I can recall.

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