"basic fuel" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a substance used to power something, or to refer to the most basic of requirements for a specified activity. For example, "We need to find a way to provide our team with basic fuel in order to complete the project on time."
Low-test nationalism is the basic fuel of Republican candidates but Romney's references clanked.
Another type of experimental breeder, the thermal breeder reactor, employs thorium-232 as its basic fuel, or fertile material.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in an exhaustive study released last week, found that Enron and more than 30 other major companies in the energy markets manipulated not only wholesale electricity prices but also the price of natural gas, a basic fuel for generators.
With no money lost, the basic fuel driving any business scandal is missing.
Also intriguing is that Chlamydia can make ATP, the basic fuel for any cell.
Previously, hydrogen has been used as the basic fuel for fuel cells.
The Hero Splendor, a basic, fuel-efficient 100cc bike, is the world's best-selling two-wheeler by dint of its popularity in India.
FOR decades, governments from Egypt to Indonesia have subsidised the price of basic fuels.
Later, other catalysts will be used to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into basic fuels such as methane and methanol.
Following a discussion of basic fuel-cell functions, a modeling framework is described in the context of a physically based mathematical representation of transport, chemistry, and electrochemistry.
Besides multiple air staging, effects of the fuel staging in respect to the NOx emissions have been investigated, first by staging the basic fuels, that is coal and woody biomass, and then by natural gas reburning.
