diesel
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The sale of new purely petrol or diesel cars is set to be banned from 2030.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Rocketing diesel prices mean the price of everything we buy will keep rising.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
G-7 countries agreed to release 100 million barrels of diesel fuel and crude oil, but it most likely won’t be enough to bring prices back down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The G7 has agreed to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel in a bid to ease supply pressures that have caused prices to skyrocket.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
No sooner was it up than a diesel truck with air compressors pulled onto the bridge.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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
Had they been conventional diesels, they would have created a smelly cacophony as they idled.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022
Rather, the agency says there are pollution control devices in development that can keep diesels in use and still clean the air.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2022
“She’s forty-six feet. Twin diesels, eight hundred horses.”
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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