He could have made a free fall and come back on the jets, but there was no need to waste precious fuel.

But no expense would be spared for the king's comfort, she was sure, even to wasting precious fuel.

That and the fact that it was clearly a waste of precious fuel to just keep jumping around.

The power takeoff and the emergency ascent had sucked up a lot of his precious fuel.

Jason Cameron was not going to waste precious fuel.

This operation would consume huge quantities of the precious fuel and could not be kept up long.

"Maybe we can," Tom replied, "but it'll use precious fuel."

The tiny fires we could have allowed ourselves from our precious fuel wouldn't burn.

But the precious and expensive fuel was saved for farm machines.

Libya denied access to the country's airspace, forcing precious fuel to be used.