{"id":394625,"date":"2021-01-12T08:38:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T03:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=394625"},"modified":"2021-01-12T09:09:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T03:39:10","slug":"covid-19-and-winter-push-cooking-gas-consumption-above-petrol-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-and-winter-push-cooking-gas-consumption-above-petrol-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 and winter push cooking gas consumption above petrol in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fuel primarily used for cooking has surpassed fuel as India\u2019s second most popular oil product following a boost from a government buying program, cold weather and stay-at-home orders due to Covid-19. <\/p>\n<p>Consumption in 2020 of liquefied petroleum gas &#8212; which is also used for heating &#8212; was higher than motor fuel for the first time ever over a calendar year, data from the government showed. Demand got an additional boost later in the year following a six-month extension of a government program providing free LPG cylinders to lower-income people and an early start to winter. <\/p>\n<p>While LPG use rose as more people cooked at home due to tighter coronavirus restrictions, India\u2019s full-year consumption of fuel never fully recovered from a collapse in demand during a nationwide lockdown in the second-quarter of 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fuel primarily used for cooking has surpassed fuel as India\u2019s second most popular oil product following a boost from a government buying program, cold weather and stay-at-home orders due to Covid-19. Consumption in 2020 of liquefied petroleum gas &#8212; which is also used for heating &#8212; was higher than motor fuel for the first time ever over a calendar year, data from the government showed. Demand got an additional boost later in the year following a six-month extension of a government program providing free LPG cylinders to lower-income people and an early start to winter. While LPG use rose [&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-394625","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\/394625","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=394625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}