diesel
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From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The last time petrol was this high was in September 2022, while diesel is still a bit below the 191.54p it reached in April.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Everything is diesel: The truck that delivered your car.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Dwindling global refinery capacity is threatening to turn what started as a Middle East oil-supply crisis into a more complex global oil headache impacting gasoline, diesel and other fuels.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The noise now became increasingly loud, its diesel hum goading everyone’s desperate hopes and deepest worries.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
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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