NEW DELHI: Consumption of petrol, diesel and jet fuel continued to gallop apace in February, prompted by early onset of summer and harvesting pushing up demand from the farm sector and increased mobility prompted by expanding economic activities.
Early trade data shows petrol consumption rising 13%, diesel 12% and jet fuel almost 41% over the same month a year ago. Consumption of LPG, mostly used by households for cooking, grew maintained the usual modest growth at 2.4%.
The growth in consumption was substantially higher than in the same month of 2021 when the economy began firing up after the pandemic. Compared to February 2021, petrol, diesel and jet fuel sales were higher by 15.7%, 12.1% and 41.3%, respectively.
