Petroleum used in a sentence

Petroleum in a sentence as a noun

I waste 7 pounds of petroleum driving to work, and .01 lbs from my morning k-cup.

> I waste 7 pounds of petroleum driving to workYes... that is also a problem.

'Because the costliest stuff is left in the ground, there will always be petroleum to mine later.

The carbon in petroleum was taken out 50 million years ago.

One of the best non-chemical ways to treat a colony is to dust it with powdered sugar or lay petroleum jelly in dishes out.

The use of railways for transporting petroleum products is booming thanks to the backlash against pipelines such as keystone and gateway.

Through San Pablo it pulls thousands and thousands of tanker \n cars filled with hazardous crude petroleum and refined petrochemical \n products.

If/when viable alternatives to petroleum fuels are available, the transition will happen.

This compares against some $4 trillion in capital expenditures on new conventional petroleum exploration from 2005 - 2012 with a net reduction in oil supply of 2 million barrels/day.

Australia is undergoing an unprecedented resources boom thanks to China's insatiable appetite for metals and petroleum products.

Having watched three TSA officers debate for five minutes over whether or not peanut butter was a liquid and concluding that "well, peanut butter goes on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and we don't allow petroleum jelly through, so we don't allow peanut butter through either", I really am skeptical of this claim...