{"id":354946,"date":"2020-06-02T11:13:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T05:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=354946"},"modified":"2020-06-02T11:13:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T05:43:38","slug":"petrol-sales-down-36-5-diesel-down-31-in-may-improves-from-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-sales-down-36-5-diesel-down-31-in-may-improves-from-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol sales down 36.5%, diesel down 31% in May; improves from April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Fuel sales recovery gathered momentum in May as the easing of lockdown brought more people out of their homes and restarted factories.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel sales fell 31% year on year in May compared with a 56% slump in April while petrol consumption declined 36.5% in May as against a 60% decline in April. May data is for sales by state companies, which control about 90% of the fuel market.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel sales witnessed a record fall in April and the gradual comeback in May signals a change in economic sentiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Fuel sales recovery gathered momentum in May as the easing of lockdown brought more people out of their homes and restarted factories. Diesel sales fell 31% year on year in May compared with a 56% slump in April while petrol consumption declined 36.5% in May as against a 60% decline in April. May data is for sales by state companies, which control about 90% of the fuel market. Fuel sales witnessed a record fall in April and the gradual comeback in May signals a change in economic sentiment.<\/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-354946","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\/354946","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=354946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}