Sentence examples for less diesel from inspiring English sources

"These are practices that do more with less – fewer chemicals, less diesel, fewer seeds – and it has a very big impact on the environment.

Mr. Goldstein said that the increased production of ethanol was also pushing up diesel prices by offsetting some of the need for gasoline, because as refiners make less gasoline they produce less diesel as well.

And high diesel costs coupled with the housing slump have resulted in fewer tractor-trailers hauling home building materials and furniture, resulting in less diesel tax revenue for states, he said.

The world must burn less diesel and wood, Nobel peace prize-winner Al Gore said yesterday, as the soot produced is accelerating the melting of ice in polar and mountainous regions.

And CR England Inc., a trucking company, now puts its 3,800 drivers through classes on how to use less diesel fuel, teaching them, among other things, to wait longer before shifting to a lower gear while climbing a steep hill.

Eastern farmers may not reap as many pounds per acre as those in California, but they can make up for that gap (and not have to charge more) by avoiding big trucking costs, which Mr. Bjorkman counts as another plus for his broccoli: every new acre planted in the East will mean consuming less diesel fuel, generating less greenhouse gases.

Only the influence of the economic crisis in 2008/2009 disturbed this longstanding increase in Europe when gradually smaller and significantly less diesel-driven cars were purchased (e.g. in Germany, a temporary scrappage bonus strongly promoted small car sales).

It costs $4.88 per gallon, which is about 10percentt less than diesel costs now — and about one-third less than diesel cost at its peak last year.

And it costs a little less than diesel fuel to operate.

It is the most eco-friendly fuel available in nature, the cheapest for customers costing 30% less than diesel and half the price of gasoline.

"Natural gas will always be less than diesel," he said, "because the price of oil is set globally by OPEC and they have to have a price high enough to keep their social commitments and stay in power".