{"id":426366,"date":"2021-07-17T11:09:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T05:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=426366"},"modified":"2021-07-17T11:09:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T05:39:33","slug":"petrol-sales-above-pre-covid-levels-as-economic-activity-gathers-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-sales-above-pre-covid-levels-as-economic-activity-gathers-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol sales above pre-Covid levels as economic activity gathers steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol sales rose above pre-pandemic levels in the first half of July as states eased mobility restrictions and economic activity picked up. Demand for petrol climbed 18% year-on-year and 3.4% over the first half of July 2019, according to data from state-run oil companies, which control nearly 90% of the retail fuels market.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel sales also improved sharply but remained lower than pre-Covid-19 levels.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of diesel surged 12.7% over last year but were 10.7% lower than the same period in July 2019. Jet fuel sales rose 20.4% from last July but were down 56% from 2019 as flights remain restricted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol sales rose above pre-pandemic levels in the first half of July as states eased mobility restrictions and economic activity picked up. Demand for petrol climbed 18% year-on-year and 3.4% over the first half of July 2019, according to data from state-run oil companies, which control nearly 90% of the retail fuels market. Diesel sales also improved sharply but remained lower than pre-Covid-19 levels. Sales of diesel surged 12.7% over last year but were 10.7% lower than the same period in July 2019. Jet fuel sales rose 20.4% from last July but were down 56% from 2019 as flights remain [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426366","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\/426366","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=426366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}