{"id":428635,"date":"2021-08-02T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T06:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428635"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T06:38:13","slug":"fuel-demand-picks-up-in-july-petrol-consumption-reaches-pre-covid-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-demand-picks-up-in-july-petrol-consumption-reaches-pre-covid-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel demand picks up in July, petrol consumption reaches pre-COVID level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s 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. Sales of diesel &#8211; the most used fuel in the country &#8211; 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s 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 &#8211; the most used fuel in the country &#8211; 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","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-428635","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\/428635","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=428635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}