diesel
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And surging diesel prices can drive up costs for everything including planting, harvesting and transporting crops.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
How much more Americans spent on gasoline and diesel during the Iran war than the same period a year earlier.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
The problem is the higher upfront cost of demand-destroying green technologies, such as electric trucks that replace diesel engines and heat pumps that replace gas furnaces.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
The average price of diesel was 142.38p a litre.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
I have only the haziest recollection of waving at my mother and sister in a rising cloud of diesel exhaust and mosquitoes as they began their slow, permanent exodus from the Congo.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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