Just don't say petrol to American folks, you get us a bit confused. I had an Australian classmate and we were planning a backpaging trip. So all was good until he told me that he wants to split the costs of petrol. I (16 at the time) looked at him and was wondering what the hell is he talking about. He took my confused reaction as a sign that I want more than half so he told me that he will pay for the whole petrol we are going to use. I was more confused because at this point I assumed that petrol is oil or diesel fuel. I turned around and told him that my car doesn't use that much petrol and we should be ok on one bottle. He than looked at me, figured out I don't speak Australian or English but American and we started to exchange friendly insults. So I was under the impression that I just didn't know what petrol was, until we got to the gas station in Jersey and he asked for a full talk of petrol. Gas station attendant also had no clue what he was talking about but he pointed my friend to a diesel pump down the ramp.

Just a stupid story.

Matt