What is Petroleum?
1.
Unrefined
Petroleum is the formal name for unrefined fossil fuel.
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2.
What the British call gasoline.
British Guy: Imma fill meh car up with teh petroleum!
American Guy: Pardon me sir, Do you perhaps mean gasoline?
British Guy: Yeh! Thats what I want!!!!!!!11one
3.
1. "Black gold"
2. gasoline
I need to stop at the gas station and put premium petroleum in my pimpin' 1979 Camaro.