Sentences with phrase «gallons of diesel»

Bulk Delivery Driver — Morgan Corporation, Charlotte, NC 2007 — 2009 Delivered approximately 3,000 gallons of diesel fuel daily to construction job sites for heavy construction equipment, and provided transmission fluid, engine oil, anti-freeze, hydraulic and differential oil for use in heavy construction equipment.

The DOE's Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs provided some initial funding in 2010, saying that the project aimed to reduce fossil fuel consumption by 40 percent and displace 200,000 gallons of diesel fuel with wind energy.

But railroads still burn around 3.1 billion gallons of diesel a year just in the U.S.

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.

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.

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.

May reduce 5,000 gallons of diesel and 67 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually per hydraulic hybrid excavator.

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.»

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.

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.

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 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.

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.»

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.

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?

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.

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.

After 508.5 miles, the Cruze Diesel takes on another 12.8 gallons of diesel.

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.

Worldwide, buses consume more than 30 billion gallons of diesel and emit 390 million metric tons of CO2, 6.2 % of all transportation emissions.

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).

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.»

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.

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.

In 2007, medium - size and heavy trucks used 34 billion gallons of diesel fuel.

They will slurp down some 1,000 gallons of that diesel per day.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fuel Economy of the Humvee: It varies, but generally less than 12 miles per gallon of diesel fuel.

Not exact matches

I remember the shock when the price of diesel fuel went up a penny a gallon.

FUEL ECONOMY - Diesels can get up to 30 percent more miles per gallon of fuel than similar gas powered cars and can be more economical than gasoline - electric hybrids.

In short, it's a tax credit worth $ 0.50 per gasoline gallon equivalent of compressed natural gas, or diesel gallon equivalent of liquefied natural gas, and Clean Energy has been able to claim this tax credit for a portion of its fuel sales each year.

This credit exceeds the current gas and diesel excise tax of $ 0.184 and $ 0.244, respectively, per gallon.

Assumes diesel prices of $ 3.60 for Australia, $ 2.90 for Brazil, $ 3.00 for India, $ 3.20 for South Africa, $ 3.50 for Japan and $ 4.80 for Northern Europe (all in U.S. $ per gallon).

New York City has invested in some 900,000 gallons of renewable diesel — made mostly from animal fat and vegetable oil instead of petroleum.

A gallon of petrol and diesel from the «belebele» guys is sold at 12 and 13 Ghana cedis respectively, as against the pump price of 18 Ghana cedis.

In August that hole was plugged: The fuel Appel makes, known officially as renewable diesel, received a subsidy of $ 1 per gallon from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which took effect in January.

It takes 243 gallons (920 liters) of diesel fuel to trawl about 1.1 tons (one metric ton) of the shellfish, according to Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, making shrimp one of the most energy - intensive wild seafood harvests, with a footprint of 5,395 pounds (2,447 kilograms) of carbon dioxide per metric ton even before processing and transportation are taken into account.

Driven similarly over the same - length mixed city / highway route, the diesel had consumed about a quarter of its 13 - gallon fuel supply, while the gasoline version had slurped down nearly half of its same - sized tank.