You probably didn’t know it, but we are experiencing a trucking boom. According to recent sales data, June 2018 was the biggest month for Class 8 big rig trucks sales… ever! And this is a good thing. Booming truck sales mean a very healthy economy and emission reductions. 

Hybrid and methane-powered engines seem to be the most logical successors to the diesel engine. A fully electric drive is on the way too, though that is some while yet. Diesel’s days in agriculture are numbered. We analyse what the near future holds.

Jaarliks neem insetkoste toe- branstof is een van die grootse kostes wat maandeliks toeneem. Saad en gifstowwe se pryse het ook toegeneem.

The AA has noted that the huge price drop is coming at a time when most South Africans won’t really be going anywhere anyway.

A cut in petrol price sent some Christmas cheer the consumer’s way when the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy decreased both the 93 and 95 unleaded petrol prices by 13c/litre on the first Wednesday of December. 

But, not so fast! If you consider the fuel price, you’d think that the price at the pump is largely based on the price of Brent Crude and the exchange rate.

A lot of U.S. commerce rides on diesel fuel. It's a fact that's sometimes overlooked in the climate conversation.

Leave it to the current generation of central bankers with their abundance of God complexes to believe that they can shape anything but the very shortest end of the yield curve.

Compression-ignition engines, more commonly known as diesel engines were initially designed to run on peanut oil, not the slightly viscous, petroleum-based fuel it runs on today. Its inventor created it specifically to run on pretty much any fuel that will burn, even really low-grade stuff, in order for it to be used to help mechanize parts of the world that had at that point not been touched by the industrial revolution.

The landed cost of diesel correlates well with the oil price.

In the past two years, Eskom has been forced to rely increasingly on the open-cycle gas turbines (OCGTs) — which were intended only for dire emergencies or use during peak demand periods — because of a steadily increasing number of breakdowns within its ageing coal-fired power fleet.

The supply of crude oil to the world had been reduced by about 7.5% to 10.1% by March 2026 in what the World Bank described as the largest oil market disruption in history. The fall was a result of the attacks on Iran by Israel and the US and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

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South Africa has rewired its fuel supply chain away from the Arabian Gulf in response to the Iran war, with at least four US-origin tankers delivering roughly 165,000 tonnes of refined products to Durban in April alone and import schedules for May and June confirmed from West Africa, the Atlantic Basin and Asia.