Sentence examples for petrol use from inspiring English sources

Other actions include a cut in petrol use by the Department of Homeland Security and an expanded solar energy array for the Department of Energy.

To cut petrol use, officials say, most of the town's 13,000 citizens are strictly obeying a nationwide call to turn off car engines while idling, particularly at traffic lights.

Right now, ethanol a clean-burning, high-octane alcohol typically derived from corn in America, or sugar in Brazil accounts for just 3% of America's petrol use, though American cars can handle a 10% ethanol blend.

Expert-based curves were first used in the 1970s to estimate the reduction of electricity and petrol use [18].

The functional unit for the LCA was defined as ' 100  km distance driven in a FFV using various fuels compared on an equivalent energy basis' to enable the Imola poplar bioethanol to be compared with conventional fossil petrol use.

Petrol consumption used to serve as a reasonable proxy for road use, satisfying the "user pays" principle for road funding.

Unfortunately this means more packing, petrol used etc.

In Butare, a group of nuns poured the petrol used to immolate Tutsi women.

Take away the cost of petrol used for her work and she gets £4.14 an hour.

And most of all, Kerry wouldn't fill the tank with petrol using money out of her own pocket.

And, since carbon-dioxide output is proportional to the amount of petrol used, California is in effect setting fuel-economy standards, says the alliance, not pollution standards.