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gasoline

[gas-uh-leen, gas-uh-leen] / ˌgæs əˈlin, ˈgæs əˌlin /


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The impacts have been most dramatic in refining, where the profit margins for processing crude oil into gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products have exploded in recent months.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

California is the most expensive gasoline market in the nation, according to AAA, with an average price of $6.01 per gallon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Those who bet on EVs over traditional gasoline engines made the right call.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Retail spending by Canadians looks to have remained on the rise last month, though the pace is showing signs of cooling as uncertainty and gasoline prices remain high.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

This is not a belief in prophecy but in the seductiveness of cheap gasoline.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

The trouble is that the converter is eventually gummed up and rendered useless by the tetraethyl lead in present-day gasolines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Continental Oil Co. introduced four new "cleaner-air" gasolines for its Rocky Mountain marketing area.

From Time Magazine Archive

This spray is said to burn more smoothly and cheaply than a carburetor mixture, to make possible the use of less volatile gasolines, to prevent icing under any conditions.

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


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