{"id":284008,"date":"2019-07-23T07:16:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=284008"},"modified":"2019-07-23T07:18:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:18:19","slug":"petrol-consumption-up-8-diesel-up-3-in-fy19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-consumption-up-8-diesel-up-3-in-fy19\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol consumption up 8%, diesel up 3% in FY19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diesel consumption in the country rose to 83.5 million tonnes while petrol consumption rose to 28.3 million tonnes during 2018-19. <\/p>\n<p>In response to a query in the Lok Sabha, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan, said petrol consumption stood at 26.2 million tonnes in 2017-18, and 23.8 million tonnes in 2016-17. Diesel consumption was at 81.1 million tonnes in 2017-18 and 76 million tonnes in 2016-17. Total auto fuel consumption during 2018-19 was 4 per cent higher while petrol consumption was 8 per cent and diesel consumption was 3 per cent higher than 2017-18 levels. <\/p>\n<p>To help meet this demand, petrol and diesel worth \u20b95,615 crore was imported during 2018-19 on the back of globally firmed up auto fuel prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diesel consumption in the country rose to 83.5 million tonnes while petrol consumption rose to 28.3 million tonnes during 2018-19. In response to a query in the Lok Sabha, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan, said petrol consumption stood at 26.2 million tonnes in 2017-18, and 23.8 million tonnes in 2016-17. Diesel consumption was at 81.1 million tonnes in 2017-18 and 76 million tonnes in 2016-17. Total auto fuel consumption during 2018-19 was 4 per cent higher while petrol consumption was 8 per cent and diesel consumption was 3 per cent higher than 2017-18 levels. To help meet [&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-284008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284008","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=284008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}