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Mar 30th 2011 04:31
I spent most of my time in my house this week in order to save gasoline. Now we can use electricity, water, and gas. However, the gasoline in my city was stared. A lot of gas station was closed, and a very long line (over a kilometer) was formed in front of some gas station.

Due to the shortage of gasoline, fewer cars compared to usual run on the road in my town. Also, the speed is very low to save gasoline. Some people are difficult to go to work.

However, I heard this bad situation is being resolved from about yesterday. Gasoline are supplying to my city now. I'm glad to hear that news, and I noticed how our depend on fuels...
Jonadab
Thank you for your correction!
Mar 30th 2011 21:05
  • Recent my town

  • Recently in my town

 
  • However, the gasoline in my city was stared.

  • However, the gasoline in my city was [???]. (I'm not sure what word you meant to say here, but "stared" isn't it.)

 
  • A lot of gas station was closed, and a very long line (over a kilometer) was formed in front of some gas station.

  • A lot of gas stations were closed, and a very long line (over a kilometer) formed in front of some of them.

 
  • Due to the shortage of gasoline, fewer cars compared to usual run on the road in my town.

  • Due to the shortage of gasoline, fewer cars than usual were on the road in my town.

 
  • Also, the speed is very low to save gasoline.

  • Also, the speed was very low to save gasoline.

 
  • Some people are difficult to go to work.

  • Some people had difficulty getting to work.

 
  • However, I heard this bad situation is being resolved from about yesterday.

  • However, I heard yesterday that this situation is being resolved. (The word "bad" is redundant in this context, partly because we already know from the previous sentences that the situation was bad and partly because good situations don't need to be resolved.)

 
  • Gasoline are supplying to my city now.

  • Gasoline is being supplied to my city now.

 
  • I'm glad to hear that news, and I noticed how our depend on fuels...

  • I'm glad to hear that news, and I noticed how much our lives depend on fuel...

 
Americans just call it "gas", and the British always call it "petrol", but if you say "gasoline" everyone will at least know what you mean.

The word "fuel" is a mass noun. As is usual with mass nouns, the plural form "fuels" is only used to talk about different *kinds* of fuel. Since the only kind of fuel you mentioned is gas, you would just say "our lives depend on fuel". If you had talked about gas and diesel fuel and natural gas and kerosene and oil, then you would say "fuels" to include all of them.
Apr 08th 2011 22:17 tuntuku
Thanks Jonadab! Your comments are very very helpful for me!

I use "gas" or "petrol" from now. And I was able to understand the difference between "fuel" and "fuels" thanks to you. :)
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