petrol.

petrol.

abbreviation for
(Geological Science) petrology
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The motor-cars that went by northward and southward grew more and more powerful and efficient, whizzed faster and smelt worse, there appeared great clangorous petrol trolleys delivering coal and parcels in the place of vanishing horse-vans, motor-omnibuses ousted the horse-omnibuses, even the Kentish strawberries going Londonward in the night took to machinery and clattered instead of creaking, and became affected in flavour by progress and petrol.
You can easily cover the distance in a few hours if you have sufficient petrol." He looked inquiringly toward the aviator.
You go in and talk her over and I'll just see that we've got lots of petrol. I'll have you down there within two hours, all right, if we can get away before the roads are crowded."
According to Askar, the fuel consumption of the car is reduced by a very small rate with the use of octane 87 petrol instead of octane 80 petrol.
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry said that the ministerial decision about the Omani standard specification of unleaded petrol will come into effect from July 21, taking into account the Gulf Standardization Organization's (GSO) standard for unleaded petrol.
Mr Yusuf says business is low since they have lost customers due to the hiked fares."Sometimes we have to cross to Lamu Island which is over 80 kilometres away in search of petrol.
The Rawalpindi district administration had made helmet compulsory for the motorcyclists seeking petrol.
The car and motorcycle owners had to run from pillars to post to get petrol. At several places the scuffle and exchange of hot words were reported between the motorists and petrol pump workers.
According to price notifications, Delhi levies a VAT of 27 per cent on petrol. The same on diesel is 16.75 per cent plus Rs 250 per kl air ambience charge.
In Lahore, the City Traffic Police Officer has written a letter to the Deputy Commissioner who also enjoys powers of District Magistrate to issue an across-the-border to all the petrol pumps and filling stations operating in the city and rural areas that motorcyclists without helmets must not be given petrol.
Through this mechanism, the government will provide a petrol subsidy of 30 sen a litre for RON95 petrol. However, the subsidy is limited to 100 litres a month for cars and for motorcycles, 40 litres a month.