{"id":350523,"date":"2020-05-11T09:49:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T04:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=350523"},"modified":"2020-05-11T10:28:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T04:58:47","slug":"lockdown-impact-fuel-demand-in-india-plunged-to-historic-lows-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lockdown-impact-fuel-demand-in-india-plunged-to-historic-lows-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown impact: Fuel demand in India plunged to historic lows in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s fuel demand dropped 45.8 per cent in April from a year earlier as a nationwide lockdown and travel curbs to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus eroded economic activity. Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oil demand, totalled 9.93 million tonnes \u2014 the lowest since 2007 \u2014 government data showed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>State fuel retailers in India sold 50 per cent less refined fuel in the first two weeks of April than the same time a year earlier as the country came to a standstill due to the lockdown that was put in place on March 24.<\/p>\n<p>State retailers&#8217; gasoline and gasoil sales in April fell by 61 per cent and 57 per cent from a year earlier, though declines eased slightly later in the month when some transportation and industrial activity resumed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s fuel demand dropped 45.8 per cent in April from a year earlier as a nationwide lockdown and travel curbs to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus eroded economic activity. Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oil demand, totalled 9.93 million tonnes \u2014 the lowest since 2007 \u2014 government data showed on Saturday. State fuel retailers in India sold 50 per cent less refined fuel in the first two weeks of April than the same time a year earlier as the country came to a standstill due to the lockdown that was put in place on March 24. State retailers&#8217; [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350523","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=350523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}