Book excerpt: 0-7881-8736-8 Motor gasoline is the primary petroleum product sold in the U.S. today. This report presents a historical overview of the gasoline industry, and discusses the properties and composition of motor gasoline and how these have changed over the years. It also discusses motor gasoline supply, motor gasoline storage, distribution, and marketing, motor gasoline prices and demand, and alternative fuels. In addition, the report presents a motor gasoline outlook, containing forecasts of motor gasoline demand to 2010. A glossary and an appendix are provided to help readers with terms and refinery processes with which they may be unfamiliar.