gallon
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Gas, which costs $4.33 per gallon nationwide on average, is about 40 percent more expensive than it was a year ago.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
“Nobody buys a gallon of diesel for their kitchen, and everybody pays for it anyway,” said Rob Carpenter, founder and chief intelligence officer at Tea Technologies, which runs a trucking safety and risk platform.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
That move will defer payment of the federal tax of 24.4 cents a gallon on diesel through the end of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Before the war with Iran a gallon of diesel in the US cost around $3.50.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
I grab a gallon of water and a bowl of beans and rice.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
In January, a collapsed sewer pipe outside Washington, D.C., spilled more than 240 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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
“At least forty gallons, Master Mandrag, depending on the quality of the material.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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