gallon
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The conflict has caused gas prices in the US to spike to above $4 a gallon, a painful hike to any US business that relies on transport.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
But they are still at roughly $4 a gallon, according to AAA, up from about $3 a gallon before the conflict started at the end of February.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The average price of gasoline was $4.02 a gallon on Saturday, according to AAA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Tai Milder, director of the agency’s fuels market watchdog, pointed to a different issue: Branded gasoline stations in the state charge 31 cents more per gallon on average than unbranded ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
On the patio was a barbeque pit made from a fifty-five gallon drum slit endways with a torch and set in a welded iron frame.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
The proposed center in Nodaway County, about 40 miles from here, would use municipal wastewater in a closed-loop cooling system that, according to the project website, requires an initial 1.5 million gallons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Investigators linked the tanker to 2.6 million gallons of Texas diesel falsely labeled as lubricating oil additives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Renewable diesel volumes hit 3.8 million gallons a day, and ethanol production volumes averaged 4.7 million gallons a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Their individual payloads of more than 1,000 gallons of water are then dumped onto the flames below.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Four thousand gallons of salt water surged out of the swimming pool, dousing me and Kronos and everyone on the deck.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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