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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:

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