{"id":374034,"date":"2020-09-17T12:04:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T06:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374034"},"modified":"2020-09-17T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T08:00:10","slug":"petrol-sales-back-to-pre-covid-level-in-september-diesel-just-6-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-sales-back-to-pre-covid-level-in-september-diesel-just-6-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol sales back to pre-Covid level in September; diesel just 6% short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Petrol sales have fully recovered to pre-Covid level and diesel is down just about 6% in the first half of September from a year earlier, signalling people and industry were eager to get on with their lives despite a record jump in infection rates.<\/p>\n<p>In the first fortnight of September, petrol sales rose 2% from a year earlier and 7% compared to August. Diesel sales were down 5.5% year on year but rose 20% month on month, as per sales data from state-run fuel retailers who control nearly 90% of the domestic market.<\/p>\n<p>This is a dramatic turnaround for fuel demand following weak recovery in July and August. Demand for diesel and petrol were down by 21% and 7.4%, respectively, in August from a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Petrol sales have fully recovered to pre-Covid level and diesel is down just about 6% in the first half of September from a year earlier, signalling people and industry were eager to get on with their lives despite a record jump in infection rates. In the first fortnight of September, petrol sales rose 2% from a year earlier and 7% compared to August. Diesel sales were down 5.5% year on year but rose 20% month on month, as per sales data from state-run fuel retailers who control nearly 90% of the domestic market. This is a dramatic turnaround [&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-374034","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\/374034","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=374034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}