{"id":282034,"date":"2019-07-15T05:10:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282034"},"modified":"2019-07-15T05:10:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:10:50","slug":"diesel-demand-growth-set-to-slow-in-india-as-motorists-switch-to-petrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/diesel-demand-growth-set-to-slow-in-india-as-motorists-switch-to-petrol\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel demand growth set to slow in India as motorists switch to petrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s strong diesel demand growth is decoupling from the car market as motorists increasingly turn to gasoline vehicles, leaving it more reliant on patchy demand from construction and heavy industry.<\/p>\n<p>A slowdown in demand growth in India \u2014 one of Asia&#8217;s biggest diesel guzzlers &#8212; could add to a persistent glut of diesel in the region, fuelled in part by strong exports from China, and put pressure on regional refining profit margins.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation has historically accounted for two-thirds of India&#8217;s diesel use, but a steady decline in diesel&#8217;s discount to gasoline has seen sales of diesel-powered cars fall to a record low share of total sales, according to industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s strong diesel demand growth is decoupling from the car market as motorists increasingly turn to gasoline vehicles, leaving it more reliant on patchy demand from construction and heavy industry. A slowdown in demand growth in India \u2014 one of Asia&#8217;s biggest diesel guzzlers &#8212; could add to a persistent glut of diesel in the region, fuelled in part by strong exports from China, and put pressure on regional refining profit margins. Transportation has historically accounted for two-thirds of India&#8217;s diesel use, but a steady decline in diesel&#8217;s discount to gasoline has seen sales of diesel-powered cars fall to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}