{"id":300257,"date":"2019-11-11T10:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T05:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=300257"},"modified":"2019-11-11T10:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T05:26:44","slug":"sharp-fall-in-diesel-demand-consumption-down-3-3-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sharp-fall-in-diesel-demand-consumption-down-3-3-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp fall in diesel demand, consumption down 3.3% in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s diesel demand has slowed down sharply because of a sluggish economy and structural changes like GST-induced road transport efficiency, trucks being allowed to carry a bigger load, increased power supply and consumer preference for petrol vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel consumption grew barely 1.1% in the six months to September when it contracted 3.3%. Diesel makes up 40% of India\u2019s total oil demand, which grew just 1.4% in the first half of 2019-20. In FY19, the demand was up 3% for diesel, and 2.7% for total oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s diesel demand has slowed down sharply because of a sluggish economy and structural changes like GST-induced road transport efficiency, trucks being allowed to carry a bigger load, increased power supply and consumer preference for petrol vehicles. Diesel consumption grew barely 1.1% in the six months to September when it contracted 3.3%. Diesel makes up 40% of India\u2019s total oil demand, which grew just 1.4% in the first half of 2019-20. In FY19, the demand was up 3% for diesel, and 2.7% for total oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300257","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}