fuel
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Logistical constraints have complicated re-routing of fuel supplies, widening the gap between crude oil prices and refined products.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Several large refineries that produced jet fuel and diesel have been damaged and will take time to repair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
It is the warm ocean that gives hurricanes their fuel, providing energy and moisture allowing them to grow.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Singh now yearns for prewar fuel prices of $4 per gallon, when filling up the tank cost $1,200.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
He gathers logs, brush to fuel the fire.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Industry has shown some resilience, while France’s relatively low dependence on imported fossil fuels has insulated it from some of the energy price shock when compared to other European economies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
For Tock, whose rent consumes almost an entire biweekly paycheck, “the idea of homeownership is anywhere from ‘so far out’ to ‘I have given up,’” which fuels his activism as a long-term renter.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
While exports of crude from the Middle East have been returning to near pre-war levels in recent weeks, the situation for fuels such as diesel remains tight due to refineries being damaged during the conflict.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
It’s a move that aims to bring down the soaring price of fuels and would seem to end the threat of a U.S. ban on diesel exports, at least for now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
But trap too much, which humans were doing by burning fossil fuels, and everything started to overheat.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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More than a quarter of Brazilians are now evangelical Christians, up from just 9% in 1991, while violent crime has fueled demands for tougher policing and greater access to guns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
That tempered expectations of an imminent rate hike by the Federal Reserve, and fueled optimism on equity markets that the AI-fueled rally still has room to run.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
“Lanterns” delivered that primarily in its fifth episode, then fueled the rest with dramatic chemistry and punchy dialogue.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Evans admitted that blow only fueled his determination to make it in the WRC and a first rally victory followed - in his home event in Wales - in 2017.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
I was fueled purely by the desperate need to make something happen.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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Speculation in Sweden's literary circles is already in full swing, fuelled by the fact that the list of nominees and the jury's deliberations are kept secret for 50 years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Programmes to attract international workers have fuelled public worry.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
The crisis has fuelled speculation that Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek was preparing to resign, though he dismissed the rumours as "baseless".
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Visitor numbers have surged, fuelled partly by social media posts about Hanle's night skies and its location on the route to Umling La, which is among the world's highest motorable mountain passes.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
His personal identification with romantic heroes such as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet seemed to have fuelled not just musical inspiration but his crazed, desperate infatuation with a Shakespearean actress, Harriet Smithson.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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But now, candidates across the country, like Lawrence, are trumpeting their experiences as renters and tenant organizers, fueling an emerging political movement focused on making renting more sustainable.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
The outrage at Cornell, along with a string of recent Greek scandals at other high-profile schools, is fueling calls to curb fraternities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The investigation was reopened on Monday after the alleged victim filed a civil lawsuit, fueling allegations that the elite college failed to properly hold the men accountable.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Mosquitoes have been thriving amid the damp conditions, fueling the number of West Nile virus cases in Los Angeles County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The confluence of race and sex was a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Artificial intelligence is fuelling a rebound in investment in innovation, with corporate research and development spending reaching record highs, the United Nations said Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
The slow-moving storm is fuelling up on extremely warm waters caused by the El Niño climate phenomenon and is the season's third category 5 storm, the highest level on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
That demand is also fuelling a rapid build-out of data centres - the computing hubs where data is stored and AI models are trained and run.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
What is fuelling this spectacle is another, less visible revolution happening inside factories and classrooms.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
This matter of fuelling steamers is a serious one at such distances from the coal-mines; it costs the Peninsular Company some eight hundred thousand pounds a year.
From Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
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