diesel
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Bell Potter says the higher costs were driven by lower grades, weaker sales volumes, higher diesel costs and accounting impacts of the integration of maiden copper production from the new Jericho mine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The supply shortages have sent global gasoline and diesel profit margins surging, said Matthew Blair, an analyst with TPH & Co.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
And Phillips 66’s refinery in Rodeo, Calif., also makes renewable diesel from vegetable oil.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
U.S. gasoline and diesel futures also surged, pushed higher by Ukraine’s intensifying air campaign against Russian refineries as well as the renewed Hormuz tensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Inside the truck box lives a smell: clay, spilled diesel mixed with something putrid.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
While there are exemptions available for blue badge holders, motorbikes, mopeds and emergency vehicles, in general petrol cars made before 2005 and diesels built before September 2014 will not be allowed in the zone.
From BBC ● May 31, 2023
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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