petrodiesel

See also: petrodiésel

English

Etymology

petro- +‎ diesel

Noun

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:
      Biodiesel these days is selling at about the same prices as petrodiesel, or even a little more in many places.
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