Sentence examples for which petrol from inspiring English sources

The mineral oil from which petrol and diesel are produced is now expensive – a fact that is intimately bound up with the world's current economic woes.

For one thing, clean energy is not the only sort of "alternative" energy that is enjoying a boom: dirty technologies like Canada's mucky tar sands (from which petrol can be made at great environmental expense) are also benefiting from high oil prices.

After a week of civil unrest across the country, in which nearly 60 people died, protesters had gathered outside the presidential palace in Cairo to intensify calls for Morsi's downfall, sparking clashes during which petrol bombs were thrown over the palace walls.

A series of experiments was also designed to recreate circumstances specific to the crime under investigation by undertaking cigarette/joint ignition tests involving a mannequin clothed in a cotton garment onto which petrol was applied.

This can then be broken down into the cost of oil - the basic material from which petrol is derived - and the cost of refining it into something that powers your car rather than clogs it up.

But by the late 1990s this had fallen close to zero (see chart), although all petrol sold in Brazil contains 26% ethanol, a mixture on which standard petrol engines can run without adaptation.Sugar cane, like other plants, absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during photosynthesis.

It makes a small car, the Chevy Cobalt, which sips petrol in moderation and is therefore selling well.

Police have arrested a man in connection with a raid in which a petrol station cashpoint machine was blown open by thieves.

An overnight charge gives it an all-electric range of 40 miles (60km), after which the petrol engine needs to come into play.

A subsidy cut in January 2012, which doubled petrol prices overnight, triggered protests that brought the country to a standstill, until the government backed down.

Fuel company Preem, which operates petrol stations throughout Sweden, has decided to only offer renewable fuels at its pumps by 2030.