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With the majority of their diesel fleet retired, Caltrain offered 19 diesel locomotives and 90 retired silver gallery cars for sale.
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Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
Mexico sent nearly half a million barrels of crude oil and diesel in a matter of days.
—Carmen Sesin, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
But Mark Gibson, a union leader at a diesel plant, still saw Trump’s effect on people.
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
As the writer Nicola Twilley outlines in Frostbite, her recent history of refrigeration, mechanical cooling requires tremendous amounts of power for warehouses—refrigeration accounts for about 8 percent of global electricity usage—as well as diesel for trucks.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
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Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
Mexico sent nearly half a million barrels of crude oil and diesel in a matter of days.
—Carmen Sesin, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
But Mark Gibson, a union leader at a diesel plant, still saw Trump’s effect on people.
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
As the writer Nicola Twilley outlines in Frostbite, her recent history of refrigeration, mechanical cooling requires tremendous amounts of power for warehouses—refrigeration accounts for about 8 percent of global electricity usage—as well as diesel for trucks.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Diesel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diesel. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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diesel
noun
die·sel
ˈdē-zəl 
-səl
1
2
: a vehicle (as a truck or train) driven by a diesel engine
3
: a fuel designed for use in diesel engines
Etymology
named for Rudolf Diesel 1858–1913 German engineer
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