{"id":344217,"date":"2020-03-30T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344217"},"modified":"2020-03-30T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:56:08","slug":"petrol-diesel-price-today-no-rate-cut-for-13-days-crude-oil-slumps-another-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-price-today-no-rate-cut-for-13-days-crude-oil-slumps-another-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel price today: No rate cut for 13 days, crude oil slumps another 5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Even as crude oil rates slumped another 5% to below $25 a barrel, petrol and diesel prices were left unchanged for the 13th day in a row today. Fuel rates are directly dependent on crude oil rates as India imports more than 80% of its crude oil requirements.<\/p>\n<p>In Delhi, a litre of petrol is priced at \u20b969.59 per litre and diesel at \u20b962.29 per litre today. In Mumbai, petrol is selling at \u20b975.30 per litre and diesel at \u20b965.21 per litre. In Chennai, a litre of petrol will cost \u20b972.28 per litre whereas diesel is now priced at \u20b965.71 per litre. In Bengaluru, petrol is now selling at \u20b971.97 and diesel at \u20b964.41. In Hyderabad, petrol pumps are charging \u20b973.97 for petrol and \u20b967.82 for diesel. If you are in Gurgaon, you will have to shell out \u20b970.21 for petrol and \u20b962.08 for diesel.<\/p>\n<p>After hiking the excise duty on the two fuels by \u20b93 a litre earlier this month, the finance ministry is now considering another round of hike. Since the oil marketing companies have enough room to cut rates, a hike in excise duty might not translate into a hike in retail prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Even as crude oil rates slumped another 5% to below $25 a barrel, petrol and diesel prices were left unchanged for the 13th day in a row today. Fuel rates are directly dependent on crude oil rates as India imports more than 80% of its crude oil requirements. In Delhi, a litre of petrol is priced at \u20b969.59 per litre and diesel at \u20b962.29 per litre today. In Mumbai, petrol is selling at \u20b975.30 per litre and diesel at \u20b965.21 per litre. In Chennai, a litre of petrol will cost \u20b972.28 per litre whereas diesel is now [&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-344217","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\/344217","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=344217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}