{"id":368279,"date":"2020-08-18T10:13:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T04:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=368279"},"modified":"2020-08-18T10:13:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T04:43:13","slug":"diesel-sales-drop-19-in-first-half-of-august-compared-to-previous-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/diesel-sales-drop-19-in-first-half-of-august-compared-to-previous-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel sales drop 19% in first half of August compared to previous month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Diesel sales dropped by a fifth in the first half of August compared with a month ago, signalling extended regional lockdowns, sluggish economic recovery and high prices are blocking full revival of fuel demand.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for diesel slipped 19% while that for petrol gained 2% during August first half compared to the same period in July, according to the provisional sales data of state-run oil companies that control 90% of the market. The sales of jet fuel fell 2% and of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) slid 6.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Diesel sales dropped by a fifth in the first half of August compared with a month ago, signalling extended regional lockdowns, sluggish economic recovery and high prices are blocking full revival of fuel demand. Demand for diesel slipped 19% while that for petrol gained 2% during August first half compared to the same period in July, according to the provisional sales data of state-run oil companies that control 90% of the market. The sales of jet fuel fell 2% and of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) slid 6.5%.<\/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-368279","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\/368279","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=368279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}