Sentence examples for petrol are from inspiring English sources

The government's heavy subsidies for petrol are thought to have cost $16 billion last year.

And, as she points out, "it's hardly as if rail travel or petrol are cheap here either".

Since diesel and petrol are also needed to generate electricity (mainly using backyard generators, since government networks are pitiful), darkness descended on homes.

The crash in oil prices has halved revenues, and shortages of foodstuffs and medicines – even petrol – are starting to be felt.

The government has failed to balance the books which means that foreign reserves, which it needs buy petrol, are running low.

It means that for UK motorists the days of £1-a-litre of petrol are likely to fast become a distant memory.

Egyptian petrol is cheaper still.

Unleaded petrol is up 19 per cent.

Petrol was the issue.

So how heavily should petrol be taxed?

Petrol is expected to run out too.