petrol
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"The lines are starting to build up again. And notice that petrol prices aren't coming down -- they're actually going up."
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
People in Iran said they are limiting spending to essentials such as food, petrol and medicine, dropping meat from their diets, and buying staples one item at a time as their wages lose value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
This week he signed into law a bill reducing taxes on diesel and capping commercial markups on both diesel and petrol, a bid to keep energy costs in check.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Other types of pollution affecting England's bodies of water, the Environment Agency pointed to, include petrol, garden pesticides and contaminated water running off roads picking up microplastics.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
But it is true, I had been considerably distracted during the last hour or so of motoring prior to the petrol running out.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
There was Mrs. Spankham with a superb model of Westminster Abbey—its petrolling had been the greatest stroke in convincing the voters of the pure motives of the feminists.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
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