{"id":419244,"date":"2021-06-08T12:04:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T06:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=419244"},"modified":"2021-06-08T12:04:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T06:34:51","slug":"costlier-fuel-beckons-as-brent-crude-hits-two-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/costlier-fuel-beckons-as-brent-crude-hits-two-year-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Costlier fuel beckons as Brent crude hits two-year high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI:  Unless taxes are reduced on fuel or oil marketing companies begin to shed their marketing margins, Indian fuel consumers are staring at even higher petrol and diesel prices over the next few months. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Brent crude oil prices, which have been on a steady upward march since October last year, hit a two-year high of $71.99 per barrel during trade\u2014and analysts expect this figure to continue rising over the next few quarters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Unless taxes are reduced on fuel or oil marketing companies begin to shed their marketing margins, Indian fuel consumers are staring at even higher petrol and diesel prices over the next few months. On Thursday, Brent crude oil prices, which have been on a steady upward march since October last year, hit a two-year high of $71.99 per barrel during trade\u2014and analysts expect this figure to continue rising over the next few quarters.<\/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-419244","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\/419244","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=419244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}