What do YOU use kerosene for?

M1A1 turbines are multi-fuel. They'll burn just about any combustible liquid.

--RC

I don't find the word 'gasoline' in either of those pages. I think you're being confused by the term 'gas' turbine. The gas is the combustion products that spin the turbine wheel -- analogous to a steam turbine.

See for example:

--RC

I guess I am. Does that mean that the Chrysler concept car they built in the '60s powered by a gas turbine wasn't gasoline powered either? That's how long I've been laboring under that misapprehension.

Actually the Abrams has a multi-fuel engine. Most sources also say it can burn gasoline.

--RC

Diesel fuel, kerosene, and jet fuel are all pretty much the same thing. Any engine that burns any of the above should run fine on any other one, at least in the short term.

No, one doesn't preclude the other...I believe the Chrysler was gasoline-fueled--I recall it was on campus while I was in school at Engineer's Open House weekend (but I was a NucE, so was on the other end of the engineering campus and it was already gone by the time I got there... :(