{"id":394957,"date":"2021-01-13T11:15:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T05:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=394957"},"modified":"2021-01-13T12:06:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T06:36:50","slug":"cooking-fuel-outpaces-gasoline-in-india-due-to-covid-19-cold-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cooking-fuel-outpaces-gasoline-in-india-due-to-covid-19-cold-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking fuel outpaces gasoline in India due to Covid-19, cold weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fuel primarily used for cooking has surpassed gasoline 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 gasoline 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 gasoline 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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394957","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=394957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}