{"id":374594,"date":"2020-09-22T10:05:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T04:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374594"},"modified":"2020-09-22T10:49:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T05:19:04","slug":"indian-oils-petrol-sales-up-by-1-in-sept-as-personal-mobility-preference-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-oils-petrol-sales-up-by-1-in-sept-as-personal-mobility-preference-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Oil\u2019s petrol sales up by 1% in Sept as personal mobility preference rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC), the country\u2019s largest fuel retailer, on Monday said petrol sales were up by 1% in September as compared to the corresponding period last year, on account of increasing preference for personal mobility, as lockdown restrictions eased.<\/p>\n<p>This assumes importance as the Indian economy has been severely hit by the covid-19 pandemic. Energy consumption, especially electricity and refinery products, is usually linked to overall demand in the economy. India\u2019s lockdown, the world\u2019s largest and strictest, was the focal point of India\u2019s strategy to contain the virus that originated in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first fortnight of September 2020, Indian Oil\u2019s diesel sales rose 22% month-on-month, but was down 9% year-on-year whereas petrol sales is up 9% month-on-month and registered growth of 1% vis-\u00e0-vis Sept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC), the country\u2019s largest fuel retailer, on Monday said petrol sales were up by 1% in September as compared to the corresponding period last year, on account of increasing preference for personal mobility, as lockdown restrictions eased. This assumes importance as the Indian economy has been severely hit by the covid-19 pandemic. Energy consumption, especially electricity and refinery products, is usually linked to overall demand in the economy. India\u2019s lockdown, the world\u2019s largest and strictest, was the focal point of India\u2019s strategy to contain the virus that originated in Wuhan, China. \u201cFor the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374594","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}