{"id":428587,"date":"2021-08-02T10:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T04:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428587"},"modified":"2021-08-02T11:13:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:43:01","slug":"fuel-demand-picks-up-in-july-petrol-back-to-pre-covid-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-demand-picks-up-in-july-petrol-back-to-pre-covid-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel demand picks up in July, petrol back to pre-Covid level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s fuel demand picked up in July as easing of pandemic-related restrictions accelerated economic activity, helping petrol consumption reach pre-Covid levels, preliminary sales data showed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>State-owned fuel retailers sold 2.37 million tonnes of petrol in July, up 17 per cent from the year earlier period. It was 3.56 per cent higher than pre-Covid petrol sales of 2.39 million tonnes in July 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of diesel \u2014 the most used fuel in the country \u2014 rose 12.36 per cent to 5.45 million tonnes over the previous year, but was down 10.9 per cent from July 2019. <\/p>\n<p>This is the second straight month that showed a rise in consumption since March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s fuel demand picked up in July as easing of pandemic-related restrictions accelerated economic activity, helping petrol consumption reach pre-Covid levels, preliminary sales data showed on Sunday. State-owned fuel retailers sold 2.37 million tonnes of petrol in July, up 17 per cent from the year earlier period. It was 3.56 per cent higher than pre-Covid petrol sales of 2.39 million tonnes in July 2019. Sales of diesel \u2014 the most used fuel in the country \u2014 rose 12.36 per cent to 5.45 million tonnes over the previous year, but was down 10.9 per cent from July 2019. This is [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428587","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=428587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}