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Gas is a 'sub-currency' which enables the EVM and Ethereum's decentralised computer to run -- with each operation, an amount of gas (proportional to the computational effort required to perform the operation) is consumed.

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Won't you run out of gas each time?

I've been reading through the (excellent) Ethereum whitepaper and had the following question: If gas is used every time the program is executed, and the program is executed on multiple nodes (presumably … , simultaneously) — what's to prevent all of the gas from getting consumed each time (i.e. gas consumed = STARTGAS every time)? …
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