diesel
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Goldman estimates exports of diesel, gasoline and jet fuel remain at about half their 2025 average.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
And now the price of diesel, which runs all farm equipment, is at an all-time high.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
Chinese diesel export margins, a measure of the profit refiners make from selling abroad, reached $100.58 a barrel in September, according to Tom Reed, head of oil market analysis at Argus Media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
China’s diesel exports have been ramping up lately.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
He breathed the air outside the doors and it smelled like trains, diesel oil, and creosote ties under the steel track.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
Replacing the 200,000 buses with another round of health-hazardous diesels would cost between $60 billion to $80 billion; after accounting for rollout costs, full electric replacement would cost about 2.5 times as much.
From Salon ● May 23, 2024
Pichetto Fratin said the government had ordered a review and update of regional anti-pollution plans, and that while this was pending, planned restrictions on Euro 5 diesels were temporarily suspended.
From Reuters ● Sep. 7, 2023
Governments frown on diesels in European cities, and come 2025, diesel cars will be banned from Paris and Madrid.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2023
Had they been conventional diesels, they would have created a smelly cacophony as they idled.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022
“She’s forty-six feet. Twin diesels, eight hundred horses.”
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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