As noted in the methodology below, they are measuring the gas-implied level as the marginal running costs of a combined-cycle gas turbine plant: the price of the natural gas necessary to generate a given amount of electricity, plus the cost of the necessary carbon credits to burn that natural gas. Then they compare that to the actual electricity price
Of course it does, why would anybody say "gas" when they are talking about a liquid? :p
(But yeah gas is a terrible name for petrol.)
What's up with Americans consistently calling things "wrong" like this? "Gas" isn't even the right state of matter for the subject, nor is "football" actually a sport where the ball is mostly for the foot, almost like things are intentionally named bad.
Apparently in some countries there is something called "Danish Pastry" or "Danish" for short, I had no idea! Funnily enough, where I grew up, those are called "Wienerbröd" (and in Danish it's "wienerbrød", the same basically) which quite literally translates to "Viennese bread".
So no, I didn't know "Danishes" were Austrian, but I did have the suspicion that Viennese bread was indeed Austrian :)
We're both wrong. It's a liquid at room temperature, and it's called not petroleum.
"Football" is a different game in the US because it arrived there from England in the 19th century when carrying the ball was allowed. In England the sport eventually split into distinct sports: association football (aka soccer) and rugby. In America they evolved the game independently but didn't change the name.
Hope that clears it up.
That's the part that don't make no sense, so no, still very unclear why Americans keeps insisting on calling things the wrong names :)
The full names of the two rugby codes are "rugby union football" and "rugby league football". So Americans aren't alone in their cavalier use of the word "football".
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rules_football
Yeah, that never happens, not even with important national institutions or anything like that.
This is untrue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football
There are lots of countries where Association isn't the "football" for the region.