gasoline
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gasolines
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The spread between the cost of producing a barrel of gasoline and the cost of the crude oil needed to produce it — known among traders as the “crack spread” — has widened sharply.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
See: Why are gasoline prices rising faster than oil prices?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
The reduction in prices sent gasoline sales down by 0.9 percent, the data showed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The waiver has let California obtain more fuel from Gulf of Mexico refineries, which has reduced the spread between the state’s gasoline prices and the national average by about 25 cents a gallon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
He used gasoline in the lighter and it burned with a frail blue flame and he bent and set the tinder alight and watched the fire climb upward through the wicker of limbs.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Isobutylene is used in the production of isooctane, a component of some gasolines.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Producing so-called designer gasolines is a matter of fine-tuning the refining process.
From Time Magazine Archive
As of next January, the firm will change its name to Exxon Co., and in July its three gasolines will become Exxon, Exxon Plus and Exxon Extra.
From Time Magazine Archive
He noted that Shell Oil has estimated that it would cost billions of dollars to develop new clean-burning gasolines.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lastly, it was doomed by the advent of high octane gasolines, first used while it was still in the development stage.
From The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928 by Robert B. Meyer
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