{"id":381864,"date":"2020-11-03T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T03:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=381864"},"modified":"2020-11-03T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T04:11:33","slug":"diesel-sale-clocks-6-1-growth-first-time-since-covid-19-induced-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/diesel-sale-clocks-6-1-growth-first-time-since-covid-19-induced-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel sale clocks 6.1% growth; first time since Covid-19 induced lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diesel sales in India clocked the first year-on-year gain since February as annual festivals boosted demand for the country\u2019s most-consumed fuel. <\/p>\n<p>Sales at India\u2019s top three fuel retailers rose 6.1% from a year earlier last month to 5.76 million tons, according to officials with direct knowledge of the data. <\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s two main festivals &#8212; Dusshera and Diwali &#8212; started mid-October and celebrations will extend for more than a month. This is the peak demand season and, as a result, a busy time for diesel-guzzling trucks hitting the roads to deliver everything from clothes to refrigerators. Crop harvesting activities also boosted consumption for the industrial fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diesel sales in India clocked the first year-on-year gain since February as annual festivals boosted demand for the country\u2019s most-consumed fuel. Sales at India\u2019s top three fuel retailers rose 6.1% from a year earlier last month to 5.76 million tons, according to officials with direct knowledge of the data. The nation\u2019s two main festivals &#8212; Dusshera and Diwali &#8212; started mid-October and celebrations will extend for more than a month. This is the peak demand season and, as a result, a busy time for diesel-guzzling trucks hitting the roads to deliver everything from clothes to refrigerators. Crop harvesting activities also [&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-381864","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\/381864","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=381864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}