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  • n  as much as a tank will hold

  • The prizes ranged from a $500 TV set to a tankful of fish.
  • Italian motorists now drive up and ask station attendants simply for a pieno di tigrea tankful of tiger.
  • A glass tankful of bluish chemicals, half darkened and half sunlit, is now busy generating electric current.
News & Articles

  • Where Will Electric Vehicles Get Their Juice?
    Do you know where the first automobile pulled up to get the first tankful of gas? It was at a pharmacy in Wiesloch, Germany in 1888, where Bertha Benz (yes, that Benz) stopped on her way from Mannheim to Pforzheim in the first automobile. (She didn’t ask the pharmacist to clean
    Nov. 19, 2013 - Forbes
Quotes

  • Byron Dorgan in FOXNews
    Dorgan asked before answering his own question: "All the American people who are trying to pay for the price of a tankful of gas or trying to figure out how they are going to heat their home in the winter."
  • Bevan in Motoring
    You can get from Norwich to Monte Carlo and back, as the Iceni will do 1000 miles (1600km) on a tankful,adds Bevan. "What we wanted to do was bring back the true GT car."
  • Scott McInnis in Durango Herald
    Frankly, I was homesick. ...... I didn't have politics out of my system at all. I've still got a tankful of energy, and there's a lot of things I find of interest,McInnis said.

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