{"id":357580,"date":"2020-06-16T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T05:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357580"},"modified":"2020-06-16T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T05:30:09","slug":"what-is-fuel-price-decontrol-and-why-consumers-are-the-biggest-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/what-is-fuel-price-decontrol-and-why-consumers-are-the-biggest-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"What is fuel price decontrol and why consumers are the biggest losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short end of the stick<br \/>\nEver wonder why even though crude prices have been plummeting, your fuel bill just refuses to go easy on your pockets? Let&#8217;s break down how fuel price decontrol works, and why you seem to be losing out.<\/p>\n<p>Technically speaking&#8230;<br \/>\nIn theory, retail prices of petrol and diesel in India are linked to the global crude prices. There is supposed to be complete decontrol of consumer-end prices of auto fuels and others. Which basically means that if crude prices fall, retail prices should come down too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short end of the stick Ever wonder why even though crude prices have been plummeting, your fuel bill just refuses to go easy on your pockets? Let&#8217;s break down how fuel price decontrol works, and why you seem to be losing out. Technically speaking&#8230; In theory, retail prices of petrol and diesel in India are linked to the global crude prices. There is supposed to be complete decontrol of consumer-end prices of auto fuels and others. Which basically means that if crude prices fall, retail prices should come down too.<\/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-357580","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\/357580","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=357580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}