Sentence examples for gallon has been from inspiring English sources

The current federal gasoline tax, 18.4 cents a gallon, has been essentially stable since 1993; in inflation-adjusted terms, it's fallen by 40 percent since then.

She said the car, which averages 14 miles a gallon, has been useful to cart around hockey equipment, camping gear, the dog and the children's friends.

The average mileage of vehicles sold in the United States, now about 24 miles per gallon, has been falling for years, largely because of the increasing popularity of sport utility vehicles.

Let me get this straight: Prototype cars achieving 70 miles per gallon have been developed by Detroit, but because automakers were unable to produce 80-mile-per-gallon cars, the Bush administration is giving up on developing high-mileage cars?

If that tax, currently 18.4 cents per gallon, had been indexed to inflation, which it is not, it would be nearly 33 cents today.

The small leak of about 400 gallons has been contained to a pumping line and the basement of a pumping station, and there has been no visible environmental damage, according to Alyeska, a consortium of oil companies whose lead owner is BP.

An official said 4,000 to 9,000 gallons had been spilled.

The Ecuadorean environment minister, Rodolfo Rendon, said 60,000 gallons had been recovered from the tanker, but not before more than 160,000 gallons had seeped out.

ONE of the oil industry's favorite tools in fighting oil spills is chemical dispersants — indeed, over 300,000 gallons have been used so far in the Gulf.

He explained that, as the oil mixes with chemical dispersants — two million gallons have been dumped into the water — it gets heavier.

NASA scientists said last week that about about 25 gallons had been detected, immediately and dramatically changing the viability of a self-sustaining lunar base.