A typical dump truck uses between 11,000 and 22,000 gallons of diesel fuel a year.
Those 22,000 gallons of diesel that are not being used should not simply be counted in units of liquid measurement, but in oil industry jobs that are lost.
Environmentalists never mention that their schemes cost jobs in the oil industry, but that is their goal. Their goal in to illuminate jobs.
Those 22,000 gallons of diesel would have created real jobs.
Those 22,000 gallons of diesel that are not being used should not simply be counted in units of liquid measurement, but in oil industry jobs that are lost.
Probably not.
Now the nutty nazis at VW wiping out diesel cars as we know them! That is a big deal.
A total of 172 billion gallons of fuel were consumed by (US)vehicles in 2009. Of this total 137 billion gallons (80 percent) are gasoline and the remaining 35 billion gallons (20 percent) are special fuels such as diesel.
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