diesel
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The conflict sent average diesel prices in the United States above $6 a gallon on Friday for the first time, a shock increase for a key fuel in the transport and agriculture sectors.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
These mandates have helped draw growing quantities of domestic soybean oil toward biomass-based diesel production.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
"We are also directly supporting farmers and the fishing industry by slashing duty on the red diesel fuel they rely on to its lowest rate in over 20 years," they said.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Find insight on U.S. diesel prices, oil futures, Energean and more in the latest Market Talks covering Energy and Utilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Neumann One tears down a potato-sack curtain and takes it outside and Werner can hear him splash it with diesel.
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
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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