{"id":393496,"date":"2021-01-05T11:20:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T05:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=393496"},"modified":"2021-01-05T12:43:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T07:13:03","slug":"diesel-consumption-still-below-pre-covid-levels-petrol-sales-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/diesel-consumption-still-below-pre-covid-levels-petrol-sales-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel consumption still below pre-Covid levels, petrol sales up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diesel consumption last month remained below pre-Covid levels and down 3 per cent lower than the year-ago levels, while that of petrol grew by 8.7 per cent, compared to December 2019, according to the sales data from state-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>A nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19 in March and restrictions on the movement of people and goods in subsequent months led to a sharp decline in the consumption of petroleum products across the country. Diesel consumption, which accounts for around 40 per cent of total fuel consumption in the country, is considered a key indicator of economic activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diesel consumption last month remained below pre-Covid levels and down 3 per cent lower than the year-ago levels, while that of petrol grew by 8.7 per cent, compared to December 2019, according to the sales data from state-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation. A nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19 in March and restrictions on the movement of people and goods in subsequent months led to a sharp decline in the consumption of petroleum products across the country. Diesel consumption, which accounts for around 40 per cent of total [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393496","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=393496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}