{"id":413108,"date":"2021-05-03T08:39:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T03:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413108"},"modified":"2021-05-03T09:13:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T03:43:14","slug":"indias-fuel-sales-drop-in-april-on-local-restrictions-to-curb-second-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-fuel-sales-drop-in-april-on-local-restrictions-to-curb-second-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s fuel sales drop in April on local restrictions to curb second wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second wave of coronavirus sweeping the nation has pummelled fuel sales in April as local restrictions clamped to curb the spread of inflection stifled demand, preliminary data showed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of April, overall fuel demand is down by about 7 per cent from pre-Covid level of April 2019,&#8221; Arun Singh, Director for Marketing and Refineries at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), said.<\/p>\n<p>India was under one of the world&#8217;s severest lockdowns in April 2020, bringing to a halt almost all economic activity. Fuel sales had halved that month and so comparing current month sale to April 2020 will not throw a correct interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of petrol &#8212; used in cars and motorcycles &#8212; fell to 2.14 million tonnes in April, the lowest since August, according to the preliminary data of state-owned fuel retailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second wave of coronavirus sweeping the nation has pummelled fuel sales in April as local restrictions clamped to curb the spread of inflection stifled demand, preliminary data showed. &#8220;At the end of April, overall fuel demand is down by about 7 per cent from pre-Covid level of April 2019,&#8221; Arun Singh, Director for Marketing and Refineries at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), said. India was under one of the world&#8217;s severest lockdowns in April 2020, bringing to a halt almost all economic activity. Fuel sales had halved that month and so comparing current month sale to April 2020 will [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413108","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=413108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}