That reply causes all my rage to dissipate. For the time being I am content.
No one can stay mad at Gabe Newell. The beard and large round body is specifically designed to dissipate incoming anger over a large surface area.
Such a shame. If his first teacher had shouted at him, he may have learned to count to three.
Gas has been slowly dipping down from $4.15 to $3.59 (which is still too high, imo) where I live. It was like that for about 3 weeks. Suddenly it's back at $3.89 after the weekend. I literally leave home for work and come back, and the price difference is a full 30 cents at least. I'm not going to believe that demand suddenly surged while I was at work for 5 hours. It's obvious that to some extent these prices are arbitrary; conspiracy theory: gas companies lowered the price in anticipation of the 4th, and now that that's over with, back to our regularly scheduled price hikes...
The fact that Americans call petroleum 'gas' instead, even when it is a liquid make me rage.
Also, the fact that you moan about prices, when in England we have the equivalent of $9.15 per imperial gallon as the average price makes me rage.
gas = short hand for gasoline. The British short hand for petroleum is petrol.
As for the higher gas prices, that's what you get for having currency worth more than our US dollar, or rather, that's what you get for not being American
Gasoline isn't even the original work, though. Also, the fact that it's shortened to gas with no apostrophe is stupid. It implies you're running your car on gaseous fuel, which you can do, when you aren't.
Gasoline is the name for the specific product derived from petroleum used in a cars combustion engine. It's technically more proper than saying "petroleum" which can be used to refer to petroleum itself or any of the many derivatives of it that exist. And to my knowledge apostrophes aren't used that way. We would use an apostrophe if it were two separate words that we were joining together into a shorter word, but it's not. We should have something to differentiate it from gaseous though, you're right about that.
Both terms are technically incorrect. Therefore this argument is stupid. These are just different regional terms for something.
Apostrophe for omission is the main use of apostrophes.
Examples:
Fish 'n' Chips = fish and chips
isn't = is not
Shonumi's = Shonumi, his (but that's 1300s English, and highly obsolete)