diesel
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Higher oil prices will add costs to energy intensive miners who are some of the worlds largest consumers of diesel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Additionally, the average price of diesel hit $6 a gallon for the first time in history on Thursday.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
All eyes have been on diesel, however, given it’s the fuel of choice for heavy-duty vehicles and machinery.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
She said she spends more than £150 a week on diesel - but it used to be about double that.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The smell of diesel fuel hung faintly over the river.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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
He added that even after that, petrol and diesels cars would still be able to be sold second hand, saying a similar approach is being taken in countries such as Germany, France and Spain.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2023
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
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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