{"id":395884,"date":"2021-01-18T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T04:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395884"},"modified":"2021-01-18T10:23:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T04:53:52","slug":"indias-fuel-demand-makes-shaky-start-to-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-fuel-demand-makes-shaky-start-to-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s fuel demand makes shaky start to 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian energy demand got off to a shaky start in the new year with sales of transport and cooking fuels over the first two weeks of 2021 declining from a month earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The sale of diesel, the country\u2019s most-used fuel and a proxy for economic health, dropped during by 6.6% January 1-15 from the same period in December and 3.5% from a year earlier, according to people familiar with preliminary data from the country\u2019s three biggest retailers. Sales of gasoline, jet fuel, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) also declined month-on-month.<\/p>\n<p>Motor fuel sales, however, were still 8.5% higher from a year earlier, with people favouring the use of personal vehicles to avoid public transport as the nation struggles to contain the covid-19 pandemic. LPG, used for cooking and heating, also posted a year-on-year gain amid plunging temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian energy demand got off to a shaky start in the new year with sales of transport and cooking fuels over the first two weeks of 2021 declining from a month earlier. The sale of diesel, the country\u2019s most-used fuel and a proxy for economic health, dropped during by 6.6% January 1-15 from the same period in December and 3.5% from a year earlier, according to people familiar with preliminary data from the country\u2019s three biggest retailers. Sales of gasoline, jet fuel, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) also declined month-on-month. Motor fuel sales, however, were still 8.5% higher from a [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395884","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=395884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}