diesel
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The chart below shows how the average price of gas has climbed to around $4.50 per gallon, while diesel has jumped to $6.50 per gallon.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, he said he is considering restricting diesel exports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Heating oil and diesel are similar refined products with different additives and lubricants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Costs run roughly in line with diesel, which hit $6 a gallon on average nationally for the first time two weeks ago and has since soared above $6.50.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Inside the truck box lives a smell: clay, spilled diesel mixed with something putrid.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
According to the Corriere della Sera newspaper, the restrictions would have affected more than 600,000 vehicles, including about 140,000 Euro 5 diesels as well as other older more polluting vehicles, including petrol ones.
From Reuters ● Sep. 7, 2023
While there are exemptions available for blue badge holders, motorbikes, mopeds and emergency vehicles, in general petrol cars made before 2005 and diesels built before September 2014 will not be allowed in the zone.
From BBC ● May 31, 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
“She’s forty-six feet. Twin diesels, eight hundred horses.”
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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