diesel
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The margin for diesel earlier this week topped $100 for the first time ever.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Energy and petroleum was up sharply, with prices for diesel fuel 50.3% higher and finished gasoline up 44.7%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Attacks on refineries in Saudi Arabia and in Russia, which recently extended its ban on diesel exports to protect its own supply, have compounded the problem.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
The squeeze across the global refined-product markets, where gasoline, diesel and jet fuel compete for the same refinery capacity, is pushing prices higher, The Wall Street Journal’s Giulia Petroni writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The hot metal of the trucks, the reek of diesel fumes, the smoke from the drivers’ cigarettes, all mingle in the thick air.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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
Governments frown on diesels in European cities, and come 2025, diesel cars will be banned from Paris and Madrid.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 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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