2002 January 5, “'9/11' is crowned 'word of the year'”, in The Deseret News, page A06:
" Assoline " -- meaning fuel made from methane -- was voted as the year's "most outrageous" word while "second-hand speech" was given the nod as a useful term for referring to the din of strangers talking on cellphones.
2002 January 8, Jim Gordon, “A day for dictionary as well as histories”, in Post-Tribune, page A2:
And I wish I'd coined the term " Assoline ," for fuel made from methane gas, voted the "most outrageous" word of 2002.
2002 February 3, Susan Yerkes, “All these rages are enough to drive you mad!”, in San Antonio Express-News, page 3J:
The "most outrageous" honors went to " assoline ," for methane-based fuel.
2002 February 13, Ron Allard, “OT: Dihydrogen monoxide”, in rec.arts.marching.drumcorps[1] (Usenet):
I read somewhere that they're working on a new fuel made from methane... They're going to call it "assoline"...
2002 February 11, Foggy, “Another Foggy Moment #133”, in seattle.general[2] (Usenet):
assoline methane used for fuel
2002 March 29, Otto Baade, “Words of the year”, in borland.public.off-topic[3] (Usenet):
"assoline", methane used as a fuel.
2002 April 4, Norma, “American Dialect Society's words of the year 2001”, in misc.writing[4] (Usenet):
assoline ... methane used as fuel.
2003 January 15, “Putting the words to nation's worries”, in Daily Messenger, page Editorials:
Assoline , methane used as fuel, won Most Outrageous.
2015, Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, →ISBN:
First there is a geyser of blue flame as the tank's puncture wound jets a stream of ignited assoline skyward, and then it blows back into the tank and boom, the fartmobile is in one billion shards, rising like a parachute in an updraft.
