{"id":418239,"date":"2021-06-02T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T06:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=418239"},"modified":"2021-06-02T12:01:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T06:31:42","slug":"petrol-diesel-sales-drop-17-in-may-on-covid-19-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-sales-drop-17-in-may-on-covid-19-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel sales drop 17% in May on COVID-19 lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418239","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}