gasoline
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Physical oil markets are exceptionally tight, with diesel and gasoline prices near record highs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Diesel is harder to refine than gasoline and so while UK refineries produce more than the quantity of petrol consumed domestically, they meet less than half of the demand for diesel.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
She encountered beaches typically teeming with tourists that were spookily empty, and fishermen unable to work because they lacked gasoline to go to sea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Americans might breathe a sigh of relief with prices for gasoline down a bit from last week, but eventually they could pay a premium on the goods shipped to their homes or local grocery stores.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
It is the same as putting gasoline in an engine.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
Isobutylene is used in the production of isooctane, a component of some gasolines.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
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
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
As of next January, the firm will change its name to Exxon Co., and in July its three gasolines will become Exxon, Exxon Plus and Exxon Extra.
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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