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^[1]:

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