{"id":344922,"date":"2020-04-02T11:32:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T06:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344922"},"modified":"2020-04-02T11:52:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T06:22:26","slug":"india-switches-to-worlds-cleanest-petrol-diesel-with-no-increase-in-prices-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-switches-to-worlds-cleanest-petrol-diesel-with-no-increase-in-prices-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India switches to world&#8217;s cleanest petrol, diesel with no increase in prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India on Wednesday joined a select league of nations having the world&#8217;s cleanest petrol and diesel as oil companies rolled out Euro-VI emission compliant fuels without either disruption or a price increase. <\/p>\n<p>Leapfrogging from BS-IV grade fuel straight to BS-VI grade, equivalent to Euro-VI fuel, petrol and diesel would have resulted in an up to Re 1 per litre increase in cost but oil companies decided against passing this on to consumers and instead adjusted it against the reduction warranted from international oil prices plummeting to a 17-year low. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are today 100 per cent supplying BS-VI petrol and diesel. All the over 68,700 petrol pumps in the country are selling the cleaner fuel from today,&#8221; said Sanjiv Singh, chairman, Indian Oil Corp (IOC) &#8211; the firm that controls roughly half of the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India on Wednesday joined a select league of nations having the world&#8217;s cleanest petrol and diesel as oil companies rolled out Euro-VI emission compliant fuels without either disruption or a price increase. Leapfrogging from BS-IV grade fuel straight to BS-VI grade, equivalent to Euro-VI fuel, petrol and diesel would have resulted in an up to Re 1 per litre increase in cost but oil companies decided against passing this on to consumers and instead adjusted it against the reduction warranted from international oil prices plummeting to a 17-year low. &#8220;We are today 100 per cent supplying BS-VI petrol and diesel. [&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":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344922","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=344922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}