How to Use biofuel in a Sentence

biofuel

noun

• Most gasoline contains 10% ethanol, a biofuel made from corn.
  — Rick Barrett, USA TODAY, 4 June 2017
• In contrast, biofuels can be easily stored until they're needed.
  — Dan Falk, NBC News, 30 May 2017
• Mississippi loaned the money to KiOR, which built a biofuel plant in Columbus.
  — Jeff Amy, The Seattle Times, 10 June 2017
• Aviation companies are also talking about designing planes that will actually be electric or run on biofuels.
  — National Geographic, 28 May 2017
• This means biofuels struggle to be competitive with traditional fuels.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2017
• For biofuels companies or electric cooperatives, no public source is as knowledgeable about your processes or services as you.
  — Marcus Squier, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• These concerns need to be balanced against the potential benefits of biofuel in providing renewable energy.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 June 2017
• Researchers at a variety of companies are working on using carbon as an ingredient in a range of products including concrete, biofuel—even food.
  — Cassandra Sweet, WSJ, 21 May 2017
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• 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
• My advice to these agribusiness, biofuels and cooperative professionals is to think about generative AI through a human-first lens.
  — Marcus Squier, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024