diesel
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While an extended ceasefire eased prices from late June into July, prices for gasoline and diesel have climbed again since late summer and into the fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
This week, the Élysée said the president had secured additional diesel supplies from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and was working to get volumes from Bahrain as well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
The ship left Russia's Baltic port of Primorsk overnight, after loading nearly 300,000 barrels of diesel at the oil terminal there, Kpler said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
They say it has become harder to keep up with rising costs, including for the diesel that fuels their trucks and their weekly grocery runs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Symbolically, a Desire bus hurtled past me, its diesel exhaust almost strangling me.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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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
But in general petrol cars made before 2005 and diesels built before September 2014 will not be allowed in the zone.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 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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