diesel
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The funding will be spread across 66 programmes over six months, and directed at housing, diesel generation and waste removal, among other needs.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
“Our credit risk goes up, our cost of borrowing goes up, our own input costs for transportation and diesel fuel goes up,” Childs said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
“There’s a pig that has to pass through a python,” Cooney said, referring to the surge in diesel prices.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
He has been able to concentrate his water irrigation allowance on the land he still farms, and he has stopped losing sleep over rises in the price of things such as diesel and fertiliser.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Jackson Street, though, smelled of rotting fish, cabbages and radishes fermenting in sea brine, sluggish sewers and diesel streetcar fumes.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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
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
Had they been conventional diesels, they would have created a smelly cacophony as they idled.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022
Non-profit RMI said the IRA's up to $40,000 Qualified Commercial Clean Vehicle tax credit "will turbocharge adoption of electric medium-duty and heavy-duty trucks." and will electric trucks cheaper to operate than diesels in most cases.
From Reuters ● Sep. 21, 2022
“She’s forty-six feet. Twin diesels, eight hundred horses.”
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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