{"id":395248,"date":"2021-01-14T11:36:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T06:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395248"},"modified":"2021-01-14T11:36:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T06:06:06","slug":"fuel-prices-on-fire-as-crude-price-tops-57-a-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-prices-on-fire-as-crude-price-tops-57-a-barrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel prices on fire as crude price tops $57 a barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Petrol price made a new record at Rs 84.45 a litre in Delhi and crossed Rs 90 in Mumbai on Wednesday in tandem with crude topping $57\/barrel for the first time since February 2020 as economic optimism outweighed concerns over fresh virus scare in Europe and China.<br \/>\nDiesel price made a fresh record at Rs 81.34 in Mumbai and narrowed the gap with previous peak in Delhi as state-run fuel retailers, who dominate the market, resumed daily price revision after a 5-day gap to pass on the impact of crude\u2019s week-long rally.<br \/>\nAfter the latest hike, diesel costs Rs 74.63 a litre in Delhi, 82 paise short of the record Rs 75.45 on October 4, 2018. Petrol hit its highest in Mumbai at Rs 91.34 on October 4, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Petrol price made a new record at Rs 84.45 a litre in Delhi and crossed Rs 90 in Mumbai on Wednesday in tandem with crude topping $57\/barrel for the first time since February 2020 as economic optimism outweighed concerns over fresh virus scare in Europe and China. Diesel price made a fresh record at Rs 81.34 in Mumbai and narrowed the gap with previous peak in Delhi as state-run fuel retailers, who dominate the market, resumed daily price revision after a 5-day gap to pass on the impact of crude\u2019s week-long rally. After the latest hike, diesel costs [&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-395248","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\/395248","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=395248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}