petrol

It is no exaggeration to say that petrol is the very life blood of civilization as we know it. More than simply being the "Black Gold" or "Texas Tea" once humorously popularized by television's Beverly
Hillbillies, the fabric of society hinges on the flow of sweet, precious petrol.


Petrol isn't just the means of how people and goods, and everything else gets around from one place to the next. Indeed, it's much more than that. Petrol is essentially the glue which binds us. It heats our homes and cooks our food.

Wars are fought over it, and the most powerful governments on earth have risen and fallen because of it.

Even so, the most practical, oft-used application of petrol remains the Motor Oil powering the engines of our automobiles and other modes of transportation. One need look no further than the ever rising and falling prices at the gas pump to see that.

You'll find bloggers spilling about petrol at sites like Petrol For Dogs and That Petrol Emotion.

by AVERROES Are you a writer, passionate about this or any other topic? Join Blogcritics!

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “petrol”

 

• Rising European petrol cost alert

  
  — Authority:
  Filed under: Motoring Motorists will have to dig deeper into their pockets to drive on the Continent this summer. The cost of petrol has risen in most European countries compared with a year ago, a survey by Post Office Travel Money showed. The rise is particularly sharp, at 7.4%, in Spain, while the increase in ...
  1 week ago

• British drivers see fuel prices rocketing AGAIN

  
  Bitterwallet — Authority: 147
  Are you someone planning on driving around the continent this year? Good news. It’ll be really, really expensive. The price of diesel and unleaded fuel for UK buyers has risen in most European countries compared to last summer, according to a survey by Post Office Travel Money. This hike has been sharpest in the ...
  1 week ago

• Old vs new Leonard Nimoy takes on newbie Zachary Quinto and his all-new Audi S7

  
  — Authority:
  On a lighter note this ad for Audi is quite funny and most timely given the opening yesterday of the new Star Trek  “Into darkness”  movie: live long and prosper Comrades Filed under: Bangladesh , Cars , Engineering. , Humour , Media Matters , Motor sport , Motor sport , Petrol Head Heaven , ...
  1 week ago

• Video: Xiaoxin Yiyi "Petrol"

  
  Andy Best — Authority: 128
  Heres a video of Shanghai punk band Xiaoxin Yiyi , led by the irrepressible Mike Herd, playing their track Petrol at the Your Songs Your Show event. The show is a special regular event that urges song writers to try original material, even in a scene where original material is playing at multiple ...
  1 week ago

• Giulia Jones still has her sights on unused petrol stations

  
  — Authority:
  I may have made fun of her in the past for claiming that empty petrol stations caused stress in communities and were a source of shame for our elderly.Still while I find her exaggerations hilarious, I do have to admire to her for sticking to her guns.“The Government spent so much time in the last [...]
  1 week ago

• BMW model upgrade measures taking effect from the summer of 2013

  
  — Authority:
  Little more than a year before the EU6 exhaust emission standard comes into effect in September 2014, BMW is increasing the number of models that already fulfil the more stringent emission regulations. As early as in the summer of 2013, almost all models featuring the BMW TwinPower Turbo petrol engine will comply ...
  1 week ago

• First FOTD from Pune and Ingredients

  
  — Authority:
  Sitting in the room, I did not have anything to do and so I went ahead and applied a lot of make up. Here’s what I did. Reviews of all new products coming soon… Hope you like it! EOTD: Eye of The Day EOTD Ingredients: EOTD Ingredients Description: I used NYX Jumbo Pencil in Bronze ...
  1 week ago

• Pretty things from Honda

  
  — Authority:
  click for source I have long been a fan of Honda’s motorcycles and their scooters, in fact when I first began blogging I chose the Screen name of Niceperson because I  used to ride a small capacity Honda motorcycle and they used to say in their advertising “You meet the nicest people on a Honda”. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bank holiday boost for motorists as supermarkets cut petrol prices

  
  — Authority:
  Jamie Stinson petrolandcar.jpg The big four supermarkets are giving motorists a bank holiday bonus by slashing petrol prices. Asda, Morrisons, Sainsburys and Tesco are all cutting prices at the ...
  2 weeks ago

• ENOC to reintroduce self-service

  
  — Authority:
  The day has finally come; when history would repeat itself and ENOC (Emirates National Oil Company) would once again launch its experimental self-service system for customers at 10 of its petrol stations in Dubai. Only this time, after having evidently learnt from its past, the company plans to roll it out in phases, ...
  2 weeks ago

• 1980s Esso Fuels

  
  — Authority:
  In 1911, Standard Oil was broken up into 34 companies, some of which were named “Standard Oil” and had the rights to that brand in certain states (the other companies had no territorial rights). Standard Oil of New Jersey (“Jersey Standard”) had the rights in that state, plus in Maryland, West ...
  2 weeks ago

• What’s the worst kind of competition?

  
  — Authority:
  Capitalism breeds competition. It’s what drives innovation and progress. It’s also what drives profits down and why companies go broke. It comes in many forms. Here let’s look at one of the worst: a competitor that doesn’t directly need to make money. Let me explain with a couple of examples. Fuel retailing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Diesel Car Vs Petrol Car – Make the Better Choice With Simple Math

  
  Techfaze — Authority: 110
  While making decision to buy a new car, many times people come around the important but confusing question “Should it be Diesel or Petrol?”. Well let me help you out for finding the better solution for the question. As we can see from the current scenario in the market that, a Diesel car model costs more than ...
  2 weeks ago

• I’m an Archie Girl! : A MAC Archie’s Girl Haul

  
  — Authority:
  When the whole world was talking about it, how can I just stop myself? So I did it. I hauled at MAC. I got the Archie’s girls. Oh My God! WHATDIDIDO! MAC Archie’s Girls Haul MAC Archie’s Girls collection released in India, in Bangalore on Thursday (25th April). I visited MAC on the following day and this ...
  3 weeks ago

• Now it’s 1Malaysia petrol vouchers – plus free traffic jams

  
  — Authority:
  As if free dinners were not enough, now we have a lucky draw for 1Malaysia petrol vouchers from the 1Malaysia Penang Welfare Club. Read ‘Umno-BN – Buying lower income votes, appealing to middle income greed’ on the Aliran website.
  3 weeks ago

• Scott Keogh: The difference between diesel and gasoline

  
  Lou Ann Hammond on carlist.com — Authority: 132
  When Scott Keogh, President, Audi of America, was at the 2013 Washington Auto Show he talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com, about the difference diesel has made in the United States, “Since Audi brought out its first diesel in 2009 till now, it has reduced US fuel consumption by 4.6 million ...
  3 weeks ago

• Old Petrol Lamp, Holding Rusty Old Lantern

  
  Public Domain Photos — Authority: 141
  Public Domain Images with old lantern in night / Young Woman Holding in Hand a Rusty Old Lantern Rusty Old Lantern Hanging, free Stock Photo / Lit Candel [ Short URL ... ]
  3 weeks ago

• Kentsel Dönüşüm Üzerine-1 Kentsel Dönüşüm Nedir ve Hangi Amaca Hizmet Etmektedir?

  
  — Authority:
  devamını oku [IMG: http://img.haberler.com/haber/373/eski-binanizi-12-adimda-kentsel-donusum-ile-4156373_2180_o.jpg]
  3 weeks ago

• Why Abenomics is leading to a squid shortage in Japan

  
  — Authority:
  “Abenomics” — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s aggressive reflationary fiscal and monetary policy — is widely praised for injecting optimism into the world’s third largest economy and making Tokyo stocks the best performing equity market in the world this year. However, in Japan, something odd is happening as ...
  3 weeks ago

• Petrol & Diesel engines are to remain dominant until at least 2030

  
  — Authority:
  The Prime Minister this week has said that the Government has “got to do more” to encourage the spread of the next generation of electric hybrid cars, which he says are now becoming realistic alternatives to traditional vehicles. However conventional petrol and diesel models are expected to remain the dominant ...
  3 weeks ago

Comments about petrol