Gasoline demand in India rose to a four-month high in March as millions of people favored cars over public transport, with one of the world\u2019s most populous nations seeing a resurgence in virus cases. <\/p>\n
Motor fuel demand rose to 88,380 tons per day last month, the highest level since November last year, according to official data. Gasoline sales surged 27% from March last year, when local demand collapsed due to the roll-out of strict lockdowns to stem the spread of Covid-19. <\/p>\n
India\u2019s daily overall consumption of oil products fell in March from February, as demand for diesel, the most popular fuel, declined. While the pandemic has provided a shot in the arm for gasoline use — more people are opting for private transport over buses and trains — the roll-out of lockdowns as India suffers a second wave of coronavirus infections may hamper the oil demand recovery. <\/p>\n
Government authorities are now mulling a re-imposition of restrictions as the state of Maharashtra faces a surge in infections and widespread vaccine shortages. India has prohibited exports of the drug Remdesivir, used to treat Covid-19, while the streets of Mumbai were deserted. <\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a detailed table of India\u2019s March oil products consumption:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gasoline demand in India rose to a four-month high in March as millions of people favored cars over public transport, with one of the world\u2019s most populous nations seeing a resurgence in virus cases. Motor fuel demand rose to 88,380 tons per day last month, the highest level since November last year, according to official data. Gasoline sales surged 27% from March last year, when local demand collapsed due to the roll-out of strict lockdowns to stem the spread of Covid-19. India\u2019s daily overall consumption of oil products fell in March from February, as demand for diesel, the most popular […]<\/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":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410359","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=410359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}