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that does not give any smoke on burning.

Pumps for CNG are separately located from the regular petrol pumps.

Some bye-products of petroleum are used to manufacture cosmetics, drugs,

plastics, fertilisers, etc.

Fertilizers Drugs Plastics Cosmetics

Wood is also used as a fuel to cook, to produce steam, etc.

Now-a-days, synthetic fuels are made from
biomass, bituminous sand. Bituminous sand is

processed to produce oil.

Alternate Fuels

Materials other than fossil fuels that can be used

as fuel are called alternate fuels . Some of the
alternate sources of fuel for vehicles are hydrogen,

biofuels like alcohol fuel and bio-diesel, battery
operated vehicles and electricity.

Trains, metro rail, trams and
cable cars run on electricity.

Bio-diesel is used to Alcohol fuel is used to
run vehicles in many run cars in Brazil.
European countries.

Liquefied hydrogen
is used as fuel in
spacecrafts.

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