gasoline
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Households that have only begun to adjust to higher gasoline prices get hit with another increase in essential expenses.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Oil prices have shot back up since the end of the ceasefire, which affects a lot more than the price of gasoline.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026
The consumer-price index declined 0.4% in June from the prior month, due to lower gasoline prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The national average retail price of unleaded gasoline pushed back above $4 a gallon this week, taking a bigger bite out of Americans’ wallets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
My mom knew awkward opinions were like gasoline rags in a summertime barn, but I knew what he was talking about.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Isobutylene is used in the production of isooctane, a component of some gasolines.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
He noted that Shell Oil has estimated that it would cost billions of dollars to develop new clean-burning gasolines.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trouble is that the converter is eventually gummed up and rendered useless by the tetraethyl lead in present-day gasolines.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reacting to charges that leaded gasolines are a prime source of air pollution, the Buffalo city council has adopted the nation's first anti-lead ordinance.
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 Meyer, Robert B.
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