diesel
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It said the air quality effects of gas and diesel generators were also "not significant".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Europe’s planned release of over 20 million barrels of diesel from emergency stocks through the IEA will bring additional supply to the market in the near term, helping to ease market tightness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"The main concern is the noise and the pollution, like they have to run a diesel generator in case of any power disruption," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
U.S. refineries have boosted their diesel exports, but they are running near capacity and are unable to make up for more of the global shortfall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Think of the diesel fuel needed to truck all that salad to supermarkets across the country or to manufacture the plastic containers it’s packed in.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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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
Had they been conventional diesels, they would have created a smelly cacophony as they idled.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022
Renewable diesels are 40% to 50% cleaner than fossil fuels, even counting carbon to manufacture and deliver them, said Mark Chen, chief sustainability engineer for Skanska USA.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2022
“She’s forty-six feet. Twin diesels, eight hundred horses.”
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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