{"id":431101,"date":"2021-08-17T11:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431101"},"modified":"2021-08-17T12:35:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T07:05:16","slug":"diesel-sales-fall-15-from-july-in-august-fortnight-but-annual-growth-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/diesel-sales-fall-15-from-july-in-august-fortnight-but-annual-growth-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel sales fall 15% from July in August fortnight but annual growth continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s fuel consumption fell in the first fortnight of August from a month ago as the rush of demand after lifting of a second round of Covid-19 curbs tapered off and monsoon rains affected mobility. <\/p>\n<p>Preliminary data, however, suggest the annual growth remains intact, albeit at a slower pace than last month. <\/p>\n<p>Diesel consumption, a key indicator of economic growth, fell more than 15% in the fortnight under review from the same period of July but just about 8% lower than the corresponding period of 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Petrol sales dropped about 5% from a month ago during the fortnight, marking the first monthly decline in consumption since May this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s fuel consumption fell in the first fortnight of August from a month ago as the rush of demand after lifting of a second round of Covid-19 curbs tapered off and monsoon rains affected mobility. Preliminary data, however, suggest the annual growth remains intact, albeit at a slower pace than last month. Diesel consumption, a key indicator of economic growth, fell more than 15% in the fortnight under review from the same period of July but just about 8% lower than the corresponding period of 2019. Petrol sales dropped about 5% from a month ago during the fortnight, [&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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431101","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=431101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}