diesel
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U.S. national average retail prices for diesel exceeded $5.68 a gallon on Wednesday, about $2 higher than a year ago, according to Dow Jones Energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
“These dynamics and the expected demand growth from U.S. agricultural production through harvest season will keep diesel supported at exceptionally high prices this fall,” Muenster says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Another negative was lingering suspicion over the 2015 diesel scandal, when Volkswagen admitted to cheating on U.S. emissions tests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Privorotsky also warns that even if the U.S. now decides to “aggressively de-escalate” that “crude is just one component of the problem as distillate, gasoil, diesel and critically, European natural gas have all broken out.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
There’s the natural gas in the fertilizer and the fossil fuel energy it takes to make the pesticides, the diesel used by the tractors, and the fuel needed to harvest, dry, and transport the corn.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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
According to the Corriere della Sera newspaper, the restrictions would have affected more than 600,000 vehicles, including about 140,000 Euro 5 diesels as well as other older more polluting vehicles, including petrol ones.
From Reuters ● Sep. 7, 2023
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
“She’s forty-six feet. Twin diesels, eight hundred horses.”
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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