diesel
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Brokers are profiting from commissions as buyers purchase financial derivatives to hedge against wild price swings in jet fuel, diesel and gasoline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Cobbled-together Hormuz flows and even a fully restored East-West pipeline would only marginally help the availability of fuels like gasoline and diesel.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
"The price of diesel, the European regulations -- it's all just become too much."
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
American fuel makers produced more than 5.5 million barrels a day of diesel and renewable diesel on average over the past four weeks, according to the Energy Information Administration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
We walked toward the sound of a diesel pump until we came to a rickety corrugated-iron shed, kind of a lean-to that was open on one side.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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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