{"id":389947,"date":"2020-12-17T10:44:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T05:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=389947"},"modified":"2020-12-17T11:26:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T05:56:54","slug":"petrol-sales-up-10-from-19-diesel-lags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-sales-up-10-from-19-diesel-lags\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol sales up 10% from \u201919, diesel lags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s petrol consumption spiked 9.5% in the first fortnight of December from a year ago but diesel demand still ran 5% short of the pre-pandemic days, indicating the economy is yet to come out of the woods.<br \/>\nData shows diesel sales of public sector retailers, who command about 90% of the market, rose 1.6% in the first fortnight of December from the same period of November.<br \/>\nDiesel consumption, one of the barometers of economic activity, had fallen 7% from the year-ago period in November after shooting past the prepandemic level for the first time in eight months in October, clocking a 6% year-on-year growth. In contrast, petrol demand jumped more than 9.5% over the year-ago period on the back of a 4% increase in passenger car sales in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s petrol consumption spiked 9.5% in the first fortnight of December from a year ago but diesel demand still ran 5% short of the pre-pandemic days, indicating the economy is yet to come out of the woods. Data shows diesel sales of public sector retailers, who command about 90% of the market, rose 1.6% in the first fortnight of December from the same period of November. Diesel consumption, one of the barometers of economic activity, had fallen 7% from the year-ago period in November after shooting past the prepandemic level for the first time in eight months in [&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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389947","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=389947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}