{"id":350586,"date":"2020-05-11T11:55:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T06:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=350586"},"modified":"2020-05-11T11:55:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T06:25:55","slug":"indias-fuel-demand-nearly-halves-in-april-amid-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-fuel-demand-nearly-halves-in-april-amid-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s fuel demand nearly halves in April amid lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s fuel demand dipped 45.8% in April from a year earlier, as a nationwide lockdown and travel curbs to combat the spread of novel coronavirus eroded economic activity.<\/p>\n<p>Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oilNSE 0.06 % demand, totalled 9.93 million tonnes &#8211; its lowest since 2007, government data showed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>State fuel retailers in India sold 50% 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s fuel demand dipped 45.8% in April from a year earlier, as a nationwide lockdown and travel curbs to combat the spread of novel coronavirus eroded economic activity. Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oilNSE 0.06 % demand, totalled 9.93 million tonnes &#8211; its lowest since 2007, government data showed on Saturday. State fuel retailers in India sold 50% 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","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-350586","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\/350586","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=350586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}