diesel
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On Thursday, diesel at the Flying J hovered around $6.26 a gallon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Gas prices in the U.S. have soared during the seven-month Iran war, with the national average for a gallon of diesel reaching $6.37 on Friday, according to AAA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The sale of new purely petrol or diesel cars is set to be banned from 2030.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
G-7 countries agreed to release 100 million barrels of diesel fuel and crude oil, but it most likely won’t be enough to bring prices back down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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
But in general petrol cars made before 2005 and diesels built before September 2014 are not allowed in the zone.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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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