{"id":418116,"date":"2021-06-02T09:19:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T03:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=418116"},"modified":"2021-06-02T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T04:24:58","slug":"petrol-diesel-sales-drop-17-in-may-on-slow-demand-due-to-covid-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-sales-drop-17-in-may-on-slow-demand-due-to-covid-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel sales drop 17% in May on slow demand due to Covid lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s petrol and diesel sales fell by about 17 per cent in May from a month ago as restrictions clamped to curb the world&#8217;s worst outbreak of coronavirus infections stifled demand.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of petrol &#8212; used in cars and motorcycles &#8212; fell to 1.79 million tonne in May, the lowest in a year, according to the preliminary data of state-owned fuel retailers. <\/p>\n<p>While the consumption was almost 13 per cent higher than demand in May 2020, it was 28 per cent lower than pre-COVID levels of 2.49 million tonne.<\/p>\n<p>India was under one of the world&#8217;s strictest lockdowns in May last year, which brought all mobility and economic activity to a grinding halt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s petrol and diesel sales fell by about 17 per cent in May from a month ago as restrictions clamped to curb the world&#8217;s worst outbreak of coronavirus infections stifled demand. Sales of petrol &#8212; used in cars and motorcycles &#8212; fell to 1.79 million tonne in May, the lowest in a year, according to the preliminary data of state-owned fuel retailers. While the consumption was almost 13 per cent higher than demand in May 2020, it was 28 per cent lower than pre-COVID levels of 2.49 million tonne. India was under one of the world&#8217;s strictest lockdowns in May [&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-418116","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\/418116","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=418116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}