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UCY ENERGY supplies gasoline
physically and also does financial transactions for our customer's hedging
Gasoline is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture, primarily used
as fuel in internal combustion engines. It is also used as a solvent, mainly
known for its ability to dilute paints.
It consists mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons obtained by the fractional
distillation of petroleum, enhanced with iso-octane or the aromatic hydrocarbons
toluene and benzene to increase its octane rating. Small quantities of various
additives are common, for purposes such as tuning engine performance or reducing
harmful exhaust emissions. Some mixtures also contain significant quantities of
ethanol as a partial alternative fuel.
Most current or former Commonwealth countries use the term petrol, abbreviated
from petroleum spirit. In North America, the word gasoline is the common term,
where it is often shortened in colloquial usage to simply gas. It is not a
genuinely gaseous fuel (unlike, for example, liquefied petroleum gas, which is
stored under pressure as a liquid, but returned to a gaseous state before
combustion). The term petrogasoline is also used. The Jamaican spelling is
gasolene.
In aviation, mogas, short for motor gasoline, is used to distinguish automobile
fuel from aviation gasoline, or avgas. In British English, gasoline can refer to
a different petroleum derivative historically used in lamps, but this usage is
relatively uncommon.
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