diesel

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The RAC Fuel Watch lists the highest unleaded price in the UK as £1.82 for unleaded and £2 for diesel.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

Since early March, diesel prices here have risen sharply, inbound freight costs have spiked, and fertilizer—roughly a third of globally traded supply normally transits the strait—has become scarcer and dramatically more expensive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

“In some places, there was no diesel, only petrol.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

The photo caption on an earlier version of this article incorrectly said a diesel gas pump belonged to Conoco.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

The observation train was, at that moment, just rumbling behind Harry Rantz’s house, the smoke from its diesel engines streaming out ahead of it in the brisk wind.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown