The phrase "petrol consumption" is grammatically correct and appropriate for use in written English.
It refers to the amount of petrol or gasoline that is used by something, such as a vehicle or a machine. Example: The government has implemented stricter rules on car emissions in an effort to reduce petrol consumption and promote more environmentally-friendly modes of transportation.
I don't like the petrol consumption.
(Petrol consumption? Emissions? They come soon after, I'm sure).
But there's another trend that's important - falling petrol consumption.
He failed to provide his plan to reduce petrol consumption with any teeth.
California often leads national trends, and in 2008 its petrol consumption was the lowest since 2001.
You might marginally increase petrol consumption by your weight but otherwise it is just utilising excess capacity.
This was the idea of cutting America's petrol (gasoline) consumption by 20% in ten years, by increasing ethanol production to 35 billion gallons a year and raising fuel-efficiency standards for cars.Such a plan would reduce America's dependence on imported oil from dangerous places (as would Mr Bush's plan to double the country's petroleum reserves).
Taking such losses into account, using the Department of Energy's "lumped efficiency factor", would reduce the Leaf's petrol-equivalent consumption to a net 34mpg.
An analysis published last year by the Sarasin Bank found that until a new generation of vegetable fuels, made from straw or wood, is developed, "the present limit for the environmentally and socially responsible use of biofuels [is] roughly 5% of current petrol and diesel consumption in the EU and US".
Only two reached the prescribed 2% mix of biofuels in their petrol and diesel consumption by 2005.
His deal to produce petrol for domestic consumption at a new Chinese-owned refinery has dramatically reduced the price of petrol at the pump.
