{"id":358917,"date":"2020-06-24T10:29:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T04:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=358917"},"modified":"2020-06-24T10:42:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T05:12:32","slug":"petrol-diesel-price-gap-narrows-to-just-36-paise-consumption-picks-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-price-gap-narrows-to-just-36-paise-consumption-picks-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel price gap narrows to just 36 paise; consumption picks up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fuel prices continued to pinch pockets of the common man for the 17th consecutive day on Tuesday, with the price difference between petrol and diesel narrowing down to a mere 36 paise. Though oil marketing companies (OMC) raised prices, they are seeing a demand recovery for petrol and diesel in June at 85 per cent of what it was in the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, price of petrol in Delhi was at Rs 79.76 a litre while diesel was at Rs 79.40 a litre, cheaper by only 36 paise. In the last 17 days, petrol price increased by Rs 8.5 a litre and diesel by Rs 9.77 a litre. This was after a period of 83 days when there was no price revision by the OMCs during the lockdown. The prices of petrol in Mumbai was Rs 86.54 a litre while diesel was at Rs 77.76 a litre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuel prices continued to pinch pockets of the common man for the 17th consecutive day on Tuesday, with the price difference between petrol and diesel narrowing down to a mere 36 paise. Though oil marketing companies (OMC) raised prices, they are seeing a demand recovery for petrol and diesel in June at 85 per cent of what it was in the same month last year. On Tuesday, price of petrol in Delhi was at Rs 79.76 a litre while diesel was at Rs 79.40 a litre, cheaper by only 36 paise. In the last 17 days, petrol price increased by [&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-358917","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\/358917","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=358917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}