petrodiesel

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See also: petrodiésel

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

petro- +‎ diesel

Noun[edit]

petrodiesel (countable and uncountable, plural petrodiesels)

  1. (retronym) diesel derived from petroleum (contrasted with biodiesel).
    • 2007, Ayhan Demirbas, Biodiesel: A Realistic Fuel Alternative for Diesel Engines, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 197:
      Biodiesel is a technologically feasible alternative to petrodiesel, but nowadays biodiesel costs 1.5 to 3 times more than fossil diesel in developed countries.
    • 2008 May 18, Jim Norman, “Fuel From Plants, Not Oil Wells”, in New York Times[1]:
      Biodiesel these days is selling at about the same prices as petrodiesel, or even a little more in many places.