{"id":431122,"date":"2021-08-17T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431122"},"modified":"2021-08-17T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T07:26:08","slug":"fuel-demand-recovery-continues-in-august-diesel-sales-8-less-than-pre-covid-level-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-demand-recovery-continues-in-august-diesel-sales-8-less-than-pre-covid-level-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel demand recovery continues in August, diesel sales 8% less than pre-Covid level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s fuel demand recovery continued in August as sales of the nation&#8217;s most used fuel, diesel, inched towards pre-Covid levels on easing of pandemic-related restrictions, preliminary sales data showed on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Petrol sales are already above pre-Covid levels and diesel is 8 per cent short. <\/p>\n<p>State-owned fuel retailers sold 0.98 million tonnes of petrol in the first half of August, up 9.4 per cent from the year-earlier period. It was 3.7 per cent higher than pre-Covid petrol sales of 0.95 million tonnes in August 1-15, 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Sales of diesel &#8211; the most used fuel in the country &#8211; rose 18.5 per cent to 2.11 million tonnes during August 1-15, 2021 over the previous year, but was down 7.9 per cent from August 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s fuel demand recovery continued in August as sales of the nation&#8217;s most used fuel, diesel, inched towards pre-Covid levels on easing of pandemic-related restrictions, preliminary sales data showed on Monday. Petrol sales are already above pre-Covid levels and diesel is 8 per cent short. State-owned fuel retailers sold 0.98 million tonnes of petrol in the first half of August, up 9.4 per cent from the year-earlier period. It was 3.7 per cent higher than pre-Covid petrol sales of 0.95 million tonnes in August 1-15, 2019. Sales of diesel &#8211; the most used fuel in the country &#8211; [&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-431122","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\/431122","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=431122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}