gallon
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Average on-highway price for a gallon of diesel in the week ended Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
She finds discounts with Harris Teeter fuel points or uses the free Walmart+ subscription through her American Express Platinum card that offers 10 cents off a gallon at some pumps.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Note: All prices are for a pound, except eggs and milk, which are for a dozen and gallon, respectively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
A year ago, diesel was $3.66 a gallon, on average.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
I passed a service station, and the sign said gasoline was only ninety-three cents a gallon.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Energy assistance comes in the form of U.S. dollars, not gallons, so with the higher prices for heating oil, ‘those dollars are only going to go half as far as they did a year ago.’
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
The company claims it produced 19 million US gallons of water in the sky in three hours.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Transport loads are the cheapest way to buy dyed diesel, he said, with maybe 7,000 to 7,400 gallons per delivery.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
A year ago in Texas, the same 151 gallons would have cost around $500.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
My mom’s solution to my predicament was to make me drink gallons of water—one painful glass at a time.
From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz
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