gallon
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The conflict has caused gas prices in the US to spike to above $4 a gallon, a painful hike to any US business that relies on transport.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
In California, a gallon of gasoline averaged about $5.60 on Monday, the highest price of any state in the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Based on current car prices and auto-loan rates, EVs won’t be competitive with internal-combustion cars unless gasoline hits roughly $4.80 a gallon, according to ClearView Energy Partners analysis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
California Chevron stations have the highest prices of any brand, averaging $6.34 per gallon in May.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The pot was filled with limp, almond-shaped leaves, boiling away in about half a gallon of blackish water.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Mexican authorities have seized millions of gallons of contraband fuel in scores of railroad cars near the border with Texas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The equipment enables the A400M to carry more than 5,000 gallons of water, all of which can be released in a single gravity-drop maneuver and refilled in about 10 minutes back on the ground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Their individual payloads of more than 1,000 gallons of water are then dumped onto the flames below.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
When 17 million gallons of water poured out of a broken water main under Sunset Boulevard into downhill neighborhoods in West Hollywood, family businesses and residents’ cars and personal items were in the flood zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Big, fancy boats with thousand-dollar trolling rods and gold-plated reels and radar and radios and fancy fish-finders and gallons of frozen chum.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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