Sentences with phrase «gallon of diesel»

In 2007, medium - size and heavy trucks used 34 billion gallons of diesel fuel.
The investigation found that a number of companies injected millions of gallons of diesel into the ground.
These vehicles consume roughly 140 Billion gallons of gasoline, 60 Billion gallons of diesel fuel, and 9 Billion gallons of ethanol every year.
Tesla has stated that the microgrid will offset the island's previous use of 109,500 gallons of diesel per year, along with the import shipping costs to get that fuel there in the first place.
Freight rail is a very efficient way to move goods over long distances, moving a ton of freight around 500 miles on a single gallon of diesel.
This saved over 380 gallons of diesel from being used and resulted in a savings of over 8,630 pounds of CO2.
One gallon of diesel pulls one ton of cargo 59 miles by truck, 202 miles by train and 514 miles by canal barge.
The company plans to introduce a gasoline - fueled hybrid SUV and sedan in 2009, followed by two Bluetec hybrids in 2010, one of which will achieve 51 miles per gallon of diesel fuel.
They will slurp down some 1,000 gallons of that diesel per day.
A congressional investigation disclosed that companies across the country have illegally injected millions of gallons of diesel fuel underground without obtaining Safe Drinking Water Act permits.
Trucks ship a ton of freight an average of 120 miles on a gallon of diesel fuel; railroads can move the same cargo 600 miles on that gallon.
Prices are so low, in fact — a gallon of diesel is less than $ 0.50 — that it has led to excessive and wasteful use of energy resources that could be reserved or exported instead.
Trucking the water consumed roughly 360,000 gallons of diesel fuel and 4,000 tons of CO2 emissions annually.
We got 15 gallons of diesel fuel and dropped it and set those bastards on fire.
The search and rescue assets were deploying to Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth in Texas, he said, and the Defense Logistics Agency has pre-positioned logistics management and resource support, including 11 generators, 50,000 gallons of gasoline and 50,000 gallons of diesel fuel.
A tanker car that partially derailed spilled 2,100 gallons of diesel fuel at the CSX rail yard, Selkirk Fire Chief Joe Michaniw said.
The May 18 fire in Ace Hardware at 60 Hudson St. did not come close to igniting the 80,000 gallons of diesel fuel stored in the building, FDNY said.
Not only have trains been hybrid since before it was cool (i.e. the 1950s) they carry a lot more passengers for every gallon of diesel burned.
The first UOP - derived ecofining facility, capable of producing 100 million gallons of diesel fuel for ground vehicles, is now being built in Livorno, Italy; a second facility is set to be constructed in Sines, Portugal.
Then, in 2011, a congressional investigation found that in fact between 2005 and 2009, 12 companies had injected 32 million gallons of diesel fuel or fracking fluids containing diesel fuel in wells in 19 states.
Indeed, in a 2011 email to ProPublica, Halliburton, a company listed in the congressional investigation as having used 7.2 million gallons of diesel fuel, said it had not violated any laws «because there are currently no requirements in the federal environmental regulations that require a company to obtain a federal permit prior to undertaking a hydraulic fracturing project using diesel.»
Last month, Sapphire Energy, an algae biofuel company that participated in the Continental test flight, said it would be producing 1 million gallons of diesel and jet fuel a year by 2011 (Greenwire, April 28).
With gas prices soaring nationwide, reaching over $ 4 for each gallon of diesel fuel, school districts are struggling to supplement transportation budget shortfalls and find ways to offset the increasing cost of fuel as a new school year approaches.
Over the course of 16 days, the Golf traversed 8,233.5 miles and used 101.43 gallons of diesel fuel.
Worldwide, buses consume more than 30 billion gallons of diesel and emit 390 million metric tons of CO2, 6.2 % of all transportation emissions.
Then there's the low price of oil, and the typically higher price for a gallon of diesel fuel versus a gallon of gas, which Nicholson acknowledges can make diesels a tough sell in our market.
The EarthRoamer also has 2,100 watts of solar capability with panels on its roof, a 20,000 - watt lithium ion battery bank, a PTO driven hydraulic generator, 250 gallons of fresh water capacity, and 115 gallons of diesel fuel capacity.
After 508.5 miles, the Cruze Diesel takes on another 12.8 gallons of diesel.
You'd need 1.7 gallons of E85 to equal the energy contained in a gallon of diesel fuel.
By journey's end the Jaguar had used a total of 14.32 gallons of diesel fuel — averaging 57 mpg — without refueling.
It can carry 115 gallons of diesel fuel, 250 gallons of fresh water, and its solar panel array generates 2,100 watts of power and feeds a 20,000 kWh lithium - ion battery pack.
This is due to the fact that it takes more crude oil to create a gallon of diesel than it does gasoline.
Using my 42 real - world diesel mpg, which most drivers should be able to match, against the 30 highway mpg rating of the gas - engine Equinox 1.5 T, and using the AAA's late - May average fuel prices of $ 3.20 a gallon for diesel (plus $ 5 for a gallon of diesel exhaust fluid good for 10,000 to 12,000 miles), versus $ 2.96 a gallon for regular unleaded gasoline, yields a cost per mile of 9.07 cents for diesel and DEF; 9.87 cents per mile for gasoline.
If their goal of getting renewable power to 118,000 stations is reached, they will save as much as 6.6 million gallons of diesel fuel per year, and avoid as much as 6.3 million tons of CO2.
In the meantime though, when it is profitable and technologically possible to double trucking efficiency, why not save 3.8 billion gallons of diesel a year or more?
A gallon of diesel counts as 1.12 gallons of gasoline because of the different energy content in the fuels.
For decades, McGinnes's company ferried up to a million gallons of diesel fuel a year from the Rhode Island mainland to power this tiny resort community (pop.
The California Energy Commission reported on the California Water - Energy Relationship in 2005, noting that «water - related energy use consumes 19 percent of the state's electricity, 30 percent of its natural gas, and 88 billion gallons of diesel fuel every year.»
To better understand the impacts of global freight movement, consider that the freight industry transports trillions of dollars» worth of goods every year to every corner of the globe and back, largely by burning millions of gallons of diesel fuel, which emits greenhouse gases and other pollutants.
Comprising just over 4 percent of vehicles in the United States and 9 percent of total mileage, they consume more than 25 percent of fuel — 50 billion gallons of diesel each year.
To date, IdleAir has registered over 600,000 tons of verified GHG emissions reductions and avoided the use of 60 million gallons of diesel fuel.
According to an article this week in the New York Times, «Drilling service companies have injected at least 32 million gallons of diesel fuel underground as part of a controversial drilling technique, a Democratic congressional investigation has found.»
May reduce 5,000 gallons of diesel and 67 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually per hydraulic hybrid excavator.
Burning diesel fuel creates more carbon emissions per gallon, but you get further on a gallon of diesel than on a gallon of gas.
So, if you can get 10 miles on less than a gallon of diesel, the carbon emissions will be less than gas; if the 35 percent efficiency upgrade holds (depending on your truck, how big the load is, etc.), then those 10 miles would produce about 14 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions — less than the 19.4 produced from burning a gallon of gas.
Doubling the efficiency of the average Class 8 tractor - trailer from 6.5 miles per gallon to 12.3 mpg across the U.S. fleet (half a million trucks) can save 3.8 billion gallons of diesel, or $ 7.6 billion assuming $ 2 per gallon price of diesel.
5) One barrel of crude oil produces roughly 10 gallons of diesel and 19 gallons of gasoline which means diesel is a better niche fuel and gasoline is better general purpose fuel.
Fuel Economy of the Humvee: It varies, but generally less than 12 miles per gallon of diesel fuel.
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