synfuel
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of synfuel
An Americanism dating back to 1970–75; syn(thetic) + fuel
Example Sentences
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Dating to the 1980s, Arthur J. Gallagher has sought out opportunities, for example, in subsidized low-income housing and the so-called synfuel tax credit, designed to promote domestically-produced synthetic fuels that can reduce U.S. import dependence.
From Reuters
This facility was paid for initially by the US Department of Energy as a synfuel plant under President Jimmy Carter's Energy Independence Program.
From Nature
Bureau of Mines briefly experimented with processing synfuel at a plant in the early 1950s using techniques brought back from Europe by U.S. scientists.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because of Exxon's synfuel program, our fields, orchards and beautiful mountains were being forfeited to accommodate the influx of people.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her timing was bad: others rushed into chemical engineering just when the synfuel and plastics industries were cutting back.
From Time Magazine Archive
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