{"id":308250,"date":"2020-01-02T11:06:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T05:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308250"},"modified":"2020-01-02T11:06:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T05:36:45","slug":"diesel-price-hike-is-now-getting-sharper-than-that-of-petrol-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/diesel-price-hike-is-now-getting-sharper-than-that-of-petrol-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel price hike is now getting sharper than that of petrol. Here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Narrowing the rate gap between the two fuels, the price of diesel is now growing at a sharper rate than that of petrol. In the month of December, petrol price went up by just 28 paise a litre but that of diesel spiked by \u20b92.18 a litre. Continuing with the trend, state-run fuel retailers hiked the price of petrol of 11 paise a litre today but for diesel it was 14 paise a litre.<\/p>\n<p>In November, the situation was reverse when the price difference between petrol and diesel was widening. Petrol price was hiked by \u20b91.94 a litre while diesel price went in the opposite direction with a decline of 7 paise.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol is priced higher than diesel due to a difference in the international benchmark rate of the two automobile fuels. State-run fuel retailers, which announce new pricing daily at 6 am, take into account a fortnightly average of the international benchmark rate of petrol and diesel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Narrowing the rate gap between the two fuels, the price of diesel is now growing at a sharper rate than that of petrol. In the month of December, petrol price went up by just 28 paise a litre but that of diesel spiked by \u20b92.18 a litre. Continuing with the trend, state-run fuel retailers hiked the price of petrol of 11 paise a litre today but for diesel it was 14 paise a litre. In November, the situation was reverse when the price difference between petrol and diesel was widening. Petrol price was hiked by \u20b91.94 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-308250","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\/308250","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=308250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}