diesel
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The Northern Hemisphere is entering harvest season, when farmers consume large quantities of diesel to run tractors and other machinery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Instead, the humid silence is punctuated by the diesel generators, the occasional Bluetooth speaker or the tinny buzzing of a cell phone squeezing out reggaeton, reparto or US pop.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
A trucking company can’t quickly replace its fleet, and a farmer cannot stop using diesel during harvest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Hydrogen is an alternative to gasoline, diesel fuel and natural gas that’s part of California’s climate strategy because it doesn’t produce greenhouse gas emissions when used.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
There was a smell of cars and diesel.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
The affair had its origins in a drive by the carmaker to increase sales in North America, particularly of diesel cars - which it marketed as "clean diesels".
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024
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
“She’s forty-six feet. Twin diesels, eight hundred horses.”
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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