petrol
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In the first few days after the storm, petrol stations, supermarkets and pharmacies were without power, leaving people to survive on what they had.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
"It was empty petrol stations all the way."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
"By midnight I'd reached the front of the queue. Then they shut the petrol station until 2am."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
But when they have a choice, they stick to petrol.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
“I live in Stockport. I help my granddad in his office in the week, and he pays for my petrol, but I can’t come here every weekend.”
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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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