gasoline

This year has now seen more days with average gasoline prices over $4 a gallon than any other year, De Haan recently noted.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

A KFF poll in September found that 60% of voters are very worried or somewhat worried about handling healthcare expenses, while 59% expressed that type of concern about paying for gasoline and other transportation expenses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

The spike in energy costs, including gasoline, diesel and heating oil, is another case in point.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

On an annual basis, energy and petroleum products similarly were the biggest driver of price gains, with diesel fuel soaring more than 100% and finished motor gasoline up 45.3% compared with last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The headlights of cars are all painted blue, they say, and at night the city is as quiet as a graveyard: no buses, no trains, hardly any gasoline.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Isobutylene is used in the production of isooctane, a component of some gasolines.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

Government regulations have phased out most leaded gasolines, but the residue from the exhausts of millions of vehicles in years gone by still poisons the soil near major highways.

From Time Magazine Archive

Best available high-test gasolines have an "octane rating" of 76.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coloring gasoline was started during the war when dyes were added to aviation fuels to distinguish them from motor car gasolines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lastly, it was doomed by the advent of high octane gasolines, first used while it was still in the development stage.

From The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928 by Robert B. Meyer