{"id":410454,"date":"2021-04-13T10:07:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410454"},"modified":"2021-04-13T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T05:25:21","slug":"petrol-usage-jumps-in-march-as-indian-commuters-prefer-cars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-usage-jumps-in-march-as-indian-commuters-prefer-cars-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol usage jumps in March as Indian commuters prefer cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<p>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<p>India\u2019s daily overall consumption of oil products fell in March from February, as demand for diesel, the most popular fuel, declined. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410454","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=410454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}