{"id":282232,"date":"2019-07-15T06:38:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T06:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282232"},"modified":"2019-07-15T06:38:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T06:38:59","slug":"indias-diesel-demand-set-for-slowdown-as-consumers-switch-to-gasoline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-diesel-demand-set-for-slowdown-as-consumers-switch-to-gasoline\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s diesel demand set for slowdown as consumers switch to gasoline"},"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, one of Asia&#8217;s biggest diesel guzzlers, 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, one of Asia&#8217;s biggest diesel guzzlers, 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 record low [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282232","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}