{"id":408881,"date":"2021-04-03T10:25:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T04:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=408881"},"modified":"2021-04-03T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T06:30:57","slug":"diesel-sales-record-uptick-for-first-time-since-oct-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/diesel-sales-record-uptick-for-first-time-since-oct-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel sales record uptick for first time since Oct 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol and diesel sales by state-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) rose 27.4 per cent and 28.6 per cent, respectively, last month due to low base in March 2020 which was hit by the start of Covid-19-related travel restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of the two fuels had crashed in March 2020 as the government imposed travel restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol sales recovered to pre-Covid levels last September and have continued to grow almost each month amid an increasing preference for personal mobility. <\/p>\n<p>However, diesel sales \u2014 an indicator of industrial activity \u2014 have grown for the first time since October, when sales was high due to the festive season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol and diesel sales by state-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) rose 27.4 per cent and 28.6 per cent, respectively, last month due to low base in March 2020 which was hit by the start of Covid-19-related travel restrictions. Sales of the two fuels had crashed in March 2020 as the government imposed travel restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19. Petrol sales recovered to pre-Covid levels last September and have continued to grow almost each month amid an increasing preference for personal mobility. However, diesel sales \u2014 an indicator of industrial activity \u2014 have grown for the first time since [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408881","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=408881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}