diesel
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It said the air quality effects of gas and diesel generators were also "not significant".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
“If Russia could export diesel, it would export diesel,” Brouhard said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"The main concern is the noise and the pollution, like they have to run a diesel generator in case of any power disruption," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Liu and his team took a several-hundred-million-dollar hit earlier this year after a wrong way bet on diesel and crude prices, The Wall Street Journal reported in April.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Symbolically, a Desire bus hurtled past me, its diesel exhaust almost strangling me.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
The affair had its origins in a drive by the carmaker to increase sales in North America, particularly of diesel cars - which it marketed as "clean diesels".
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024
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
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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