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The cash crunch, petrol scarcity … are issues that are likely going to be top of mind for those who make it to the polls and arguably could sway the votes. – Michael Famoroti	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I have been in the queue for more than six hours, we spend almost six to seven hours in the line just to get petrol. – Mohammad Ali	Found on CNN 1 year ago
But there is another strong objection which I, one of the laziest of all the children of Adam, have against the Leisure State. Those who think it could be done argue that a vast machinery using electricity, water-power, petrol, and so on, might reduce the work imposed on each of us to a minimum. It might, but it would also reduce our control to a minimum. We should ourselves become parts of a machine, even if the machine only used those parts once a week. The machine would be our master, for the machine would produce our food, and most of us could have no notion of how it was really being produced. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton	added by Normando 2 years ago
There are long lines outside petrol pumps in the city, cars are queuing as people buy fuel for their back up generators. I was in the line, people have been waiting for hours with petrol cans in hand. – Akbar Saifi	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Cheap oil and cheap petrol probably does make (it), from a consumer's perspective, potentially a little bit more difficult to decarbonise. – Keith Skeoch	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The electricity is slowly coming back but everyone is reliant on generators, and fuel for those is very limited, people have now run out of petrol so most in the town are now riding on bicycles. – Mark Tregellas	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
She must have poured petrol over herself to take revenge, since he didn't want to marry her. – Preeti Bajpai	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Every hour we hear of a crisis at the gates, whether it's (supply of) petrol, flour, or medicine, everything is collapsing and the officials are on another planet, taking their time. – Samir Geagea	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
But today the majority of people still use petrol and diesel. We can help them address the impact of their emissions by offsetting their fuel purchases. – Sinead Lynch	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Despite the unavoidable effects of the climate crisis, manufacturers at An IAA in this form continue to present a majority of cars that burn petrol or diesel, only about a quarter of the newly introduced vehicles in Frankfurt are pure electric cars. – Greenpeace Germany	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If you build heavier cars and have a large market share of diesels you have some homework to do if you want to mitigate possible penalties, customers are switching to petrol and this needs to be compensated with electrification and or hybridization. – Managing Director at AlixPartners	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Families want more money in their weekly budgets for food, petrol and rent. Instead, their taxes are going toward rail, the defense force and trees. – National Party	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Indian refineries are fully prepared to meet the national demand for petrol, diesel and other petroleum products. – Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
You can't increase speed on mountains the way you can accelerate with traditional petrol-powered scooters or motorcycles. There is turbo mode that delivers more power but that is still less than petrol scooters. – Vinod Gore	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Banning the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030, providing support to deliver Clean Air Zones in cities and introducing a national vehicle renewal scheme will dramatically improve our air quality and our health. – Sadiq Khan	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
These five cars will be supplemented by a range of petrol and diesel plug in hybrid and mild hybrid 48-volt options on all models, this means that there will in future be no Volvo cars without an electric motor. – Volvo Cars	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
While we are all concerned about badly maintained vehicles causing pollution, the solution to that is to make annual vehicle health checks mandatory, if today the NGT can do this thing without any warning, any planning or any heads-up then in five years the same can be done for petrol vehicles as well. – Deepesh Rathore	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
As if the situation wasn't volatile and uncertain enough, the BoE governor poured petrol on the flames. – Alan Clarke	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
One of the mob’s arson techniques is to tie a petrol-soaked rag to the tail of a cat and set fire to it, as its tail burns, the cat flees in terror into the undergrowth in the woods, setting fire to everything in touches. – Giuseppe Antoci	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
They buy foodstuff, petrol and other stuff with the money. – Daho Dida	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are not even been able to run mobile blood donation camps due to fuel shortages. We don't have petrol to run our vehicles. – Dibya Raj Paudel	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Today we were told that among the affected vehicles are 98,000 petrol vehicles. – German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
One protester, an Indian national, who was attacking the police post with the petrol bomb was killed in the firing. – Raju Babu Shrestha	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Butanol, which is our fuel, is an advanced fuel that's a four carbon alcohol, so inherently it has more energy, it has almost the same amount of energy as petrol, whereas bioethanol has only got 70 percent of it, you can store it and pipe it and use the existing infrastructure to distribute this, and in fact you do not need to modify an engine. So this is a genuine like-for-like substitution for oil or diesel - and moreover the fuel is not restricted to automobiles. It's currently being trialled in shipping industry and is a very good base unit for jet fuel. – Professor Martin Tangney	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

The cash crunch, petrol scarcity … are issues that are likely going to be top of mind for those who make it to the polls and arguably could sway the votes.

– Michael Famoroti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have been in the queue for more than six hours, we spend almost six to seven hours in the line just to get petrol.

– Mohammad Ali

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But there is another strong objection which I, one of the laziest of all the children of Adam, have against the Leisure State. Those who think it could be done argue that a vast machinery using electricity, water-power, petrol, and so on, might reduce the work imposed on each of us to a minimum. It might, but it would also reduce our control to a minimum. We should ourselves become parts of a machine, even if the machine only used those parts once a week. The machine would be our master, for the machine would produce our food, and most of us could have no notion of how it was really being produced.

– Gilbert Keith Chesterton

added by Normando
2 years ago

There are long lines outside petrol pumps in the city, cars are queuing as people buy fuel for their back up generators. I was in the line, people have been waiting for hours with petrol cans in hand.

– Akbar Saifi

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Cheap oil and cheap petrol probably does make (it), from a consumer's perspective, potentially a little bit more difficult to decarbonise.

– Keith Skeoch

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The electricity is slowly coming back but everyone is reliant on generators, and fuel for those is very limited, people have now run out of petrol so most in the town are now riding on bicycles.

– Mark Tregellas

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

She must have poured petrol over herself to take revenge, since he didn't want to marry her.

– Preeti Bajpai

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Every hour we hear of a crisis at the gates, whether it's (supply of) petrol, flour, or medicine, everything is collapsing and the officials are on another planet, taking their time.

– Samir Geagea

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

But today the majority of people still use petrol and diesel. We can help them address the impact of their emissions by offsetting their fuel purchases.

– Sinead Lynch

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Despite the unavoidable effects of the climate crisis, manufacturers at An IAA in this form continue to present a majority of cars that burn petrol or diesel, only about a quarter of the newly introduced vehicles in Frankfurt are pure electric cars.

– Greenpeace Germany

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If you build heavier cars and have a large market share of diesels you have some homework to do if you want to mitigate possible penalties, customers are switching to petrol and this needs to be compensated with electrification and or hybridization.

– Managing Director at AlixPartners

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Families want more money in their weekly budgets for food, petrol and rent. Instead, their taxes are going toward rail, the defense force and trees.

– National Party

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Indian refineries are fully prepared to meet the national demand for petrol, diesel and other petroleum products.

– Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

You can't increase speed on mountains the way you can accelerate with traditional petrol-powered scooters or motorcycles. There is turbo mode that delivers more power but that is still less than petrol scooters.

– Vinod Gore

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Banning the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030, providing support to deliver Clean Air Zones in cities and introducing a national vehicle renewal scheme will dramatically improve our air quality and our health.

– Sadiq Khan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

These five cars will be supplemented by a range of petrol and diesel plug in hybrid and mild hybrid 48-volt options on all models, this means that there will in future be no Volvo cars without an electric motor.

– Volvo Cars

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

While we are all concerned about badly maintained vehicles causing pollution, the solution to that is to make annual vehicle health checks mandatory, if today the NGT can do this thing without any warning, any planning or any heads-up then in five years the same can be done for petrol vehicles as well.

– Deepesh Rathore

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

As if the situation wasn't volatile and uncertain enough, the BoE governor poured petrol on the flames.

– Alan Clarke

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

One of the mob’s arson techniques is to tie a petrol-soaked rag to the tail of a cat and set fire to it, as its tail burns, the cat flees in terror into the undergrowth in the woods, setting fire to everything in touches.

– Giuseppe Antoci

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

They buy foodstuff, petrol and other stuff with the money.

– Daho Dida

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are not even been able to run mobile blood donation camps due to fuel shortages. We don't have petrol to run our vehicles.

– Dibya Raj Paudel

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Today we were told that among the affected vehicles are 98,000 petrol vehicles.

– German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One protester, an Indian national, who was attacking the police post with the petrol bomb was killed in the firing.

– Raju Babu Shrestha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Butanol, which is our fuel, is an advanced fuel that's a four carbon alcohol, so inherently it has more energy, it has almost the same amount of energy as petrol, whereas bioethanol has only got 70 percent of it, you can store it and pipe it and use the existing infrastructure to distribute this, and in fact you do not need to modify an engine. So this is a genuine like-for-like substitution for oil or diesel - and moreover the fuel is not restricted to automobiles. It's currently being trialled in shipping industry and is a very good base unit for jet fuel.

– Professor Martin Tangney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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