{"id":363267,"date":"2020-07-17T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363267"},"modified":"2020-07-17T11:29:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:59:57","slug":"indias-fuel-demand-recovery-loses-steam-amid-local-lockdowns-high-prices-and-monsoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-fuel-demand-recovery-loses-steam-amid-local-lockdowns-high-prices-and-monsoon\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s fuel demand recovery loses steam amid local lockdowns, high prices and monsoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s fuel demand recovery is losing steam amid sluggish economic revival, local lockdowns, arrival of monsoon and record prices.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for diesel dropped 18% and petrol slipped 6% in the first half of July against the same period in June. Compared to the first fortnight of July 2019, the fall in sales has been 21% in case of diesel and 12% in petrol, according to industry executives.<\/p>\n<p>The demand for jet fuel has dropped 67% year on year but risen 11% month on month for the first half of July. For cooking gas, the demand is down 7% year on year and up 12% month on month. These data are for sales by state-run companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s fuel demand recovery is losing steam amid sluggish economic revival, local lockdowns, arrival of monsoon and record prices. Demand for diesel dropped 18% and petrol slipped 6% in the first half of July against the same period in June. Compared to the first fortnight of July 2019, the fall in sales has been 21% in case of diesel and 12% in petrol, according to industry executives. The demand for jet fuel has dropped 67% year on year but risen 11% month on month for the first half of July. For cooking gas, the demand is down 7% [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363267","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\/363267","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=363267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}