{"id":400789,"date":"2021-02-17T11:52:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=400789"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:22:36","slug":"fuel-sales-gather-pace-in-february-fortnight-after-january-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-sales-gather-pace-in-february-fortnight-after-january-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel sales gather pace in February fortnight after January slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In an indication of fuel sales gathering pace in line with an uptick in industrial activity, diesel consumption in the first fortnight of February was 9% higher than January, when sales had shrunk 5% from the month before.<br \/>\nSimilarly, petrol sales also reversed last month\u2019s trend to post a monthly gain of 4.2% in the period under consideration. Consumption had dropped more than 3% in January from a month ago. But compared to a year ago, sales were down 2.4%.<br \/>\nBut diesel consumption still remained about 9% and petrol 2.4% lower than the year-ago period, market data showed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In an indication of fuel sales gathering pace in line with an uptick in industrial activity, diesel consumption in the first fortnight of February was 9% higher than January, when sales had shrunk 5% from the month before. Similarly, petrol sales also reversed last month\u2019s trend to post a monthly gain of 4.2% in the period under consideration. Consumption had dropped more than 3% in January from a month ago. But compared to a year ago, sales were down 2.4%. But diesel consumption still remained about 9% and petrol 2.4% lower than the year-ago period, market data showed [&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-400789","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\/400789","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=400789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}