^No way man.
https://www.seedboutique.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=1029 check it out.
There are two plants named Diesel. Trust me, I'm very keen on eventually growing this strain, ever since I saw a picture of the plant in High Times, and have done as much research on it as I could.
The first Diesel was RezDog's Sour Diesel available from Rezervoir Seeds (sp?). It was originally a hybrid of ChemDog (another strain from Rez) and Skunk genetics. It was very potent weed, and smelt like diesel fuel. However it was wasn't a great yielder.
Soma Seeds also bred a plant named Diesel called NYC Diesel. It was bred for characteristics very similar to that of Sour Diesel (gasoline bouquet, similar high) but also to yield a great deal more. It was based on Grapefruit genetics.
When both strains became popular, Sour Diesel was more commonly referred to as East Coast Sour Diesel while Soma's strain stayed with New York City Diesel.
Since then, Rez has bred out the Sour Diesel Inbred Line in which he tossed some of Soma's NYC Diesel genetics to improve the yield and vigor.
Don't quote me on any of this (I smoke a lot of weed, and may not have interpreted things properly) but this is how I gather the Diesel name has evolved.