How to Use biofuel in a Sentence

biofuel

noun
  • Sorghum is a high-fiber grain grown for food and for use in biofuel.
    Zach Kyle, idahostatesman, 20 July 2017
  • The charging units, which now can run on biofuel, provide more than 50 mpg– about 10 times the amount claimed in the post.
    Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2021
  • But widespread use of biofuels is still a long way off.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Maps like this can help speed up breeding and growth of a plant that is a promising source of biofuel.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Much of the gasoline in the United States contains one of the most common biofuels: ethanol.
    National Geographic, 15 July 2019
  • The pace with which the biofuel industry is shaping up is very slow.
    Monika Mandal, Quartz India, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The write down involves a biofuels plant in the Netherlands that was supposed to go live this year but isn’t even close to being ready.
    Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 8 July 2024
  • The biofuel would power part of the British Airways fleet flying out of London.
    Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2010
  • Biden is to announce the move at a biofuel company in Menlo, west of Des Moines.
    Will Weissert, ajc, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The decision comes as the price of ethanol, the most-dominant biofuel, has risen to its highest level in a decade.
    Katy Stech Ferek, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The crop is used for food production and is being tested as a biofuel.
    Ana Moreno, CNN, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The biofuels mandate is a place holder for the kind of cronyism our country can no longer afford.
    WSJ, 25 Mar. 2018
  • The measure was approved by the European Commission in 2019, which puts the bloc on track to phase out palm oil as a biofuel.
    Niniek Karmini, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
  • There was a smart metering piece to that, there was a piece relating to biofuels.
    Holly Otterbein, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
  • The sponsons will be able to store plenty of fuel, too, with tanks designed to hold the renewable biofuel of the future.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The current biofuel mandate has run into a blend wall at about 10% ethanol in gasoline.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes, 4 July 2021
  • With soaring ethanol prices amid strong demand, the country’s mills are diverting more cane to make the biofuel.
    Marvin G Perez, Bloomberg.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The price of vegetable oil can be influenced by crude oil because it is used in the production of biofuels.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 4 Aug. 2023
  • That's equal to or cheaper than estimates for biofuels, which were thought to be the most practical method.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 28 June 2018
  • Palm oil is found in roughly half of all supermarket products, says the UN, as well as in biofuels.
    Emma Reynolds, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Interest in biofuels is on the decline, the data showed.
    Anna Hirtenstein, Houston Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2017
  • And Virgin Atlantic was the first to use a biofuel created from waste to power its jets on a trans-Atlantic flight last year.
    Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • In some places, thieves blowtorch their way into grease traps to steal used cooking oil that can be made into biofuels.
    National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2017
  • The slide is largely the result of a boom in the production of renewable diesel, a biofuel made from plant oils and animal fats in lieu of crude oil.
    Bob Henderson, WSJ, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Cane stalks are fed through a mill to extract the juice and separate it from the pulpy byproduct, called bagasse, which is often then used as biofuel or compost.
    Susannah Skiver Barton, Bon Appétit, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The way this works is that SAS passengers can buy biofuel as a travel extra when booking their flight.
    Paul Sillers, CNN, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Most gasoline contains 10% ethanol, a biofuel made from corn.
    Rick Barrett, USA TODAY, 4 June 2017
  • That includes things such as gluten-free bread, alcoholic drinks and biofuel.
    Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Reality check: Some big oil firms have been moving away from clean fuel bets after facing competition from low cost biofuels from China.
    Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
  • This can involve blending more expensive biofuels, investing in cleaner production technologies, or purchasing credits from other companies to meet the carbon intensity reduction targets.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024

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