{"id":433203,"date":"2021-08-31T11:17:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T05:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=433203"},"modified":"2021-08-31T12:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T07:26:31","slug":"in-protest-against-omcs-petrol-pumps-to-remain-closed-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-protest-against-omcs-petrol-pumps-to-remain-closed-today\/","title":{"rendered":"In protest against OMCs, petrol pumps to remain closed today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal Petroleum Dealers\u2019 Association on Monday called a 24-hour strike by petrol pumps across the state in protest against oil marketing companies (OMCs) for allegedly not meeting the long-pending demands of petrol dealers. Most fuel stations are likely to remain closed from 6 am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The association\u2019s members claimed that the OMCs had carelessly handled the introduction of ethanol-blended petrol (EBP) without due consideration for the technical aspects.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the association said, \u201cImproperly blended EBP is highly hygroscopic, it absorbs water (from atmospheric humidity and rainwater seepage into the underground tanks at petrol pumps) which later settles out into a separate layer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal Petroleum Dealers\u2019 Association on Monday called a 24-hour strike by petrol pumps across the state in protest against oil marketing companies (OMCs) for allegedly not meeting the long-pending demands of petrol dealers. Most fuel stations are likely to remain closed from 6 am on Tuesday. The association\u2019s members claimed that the OMCs had carelessly handled the introduction of ethanol-blended petrol (EBP) without due consideration for the technical aspects. In a statement, the association said, \u201cImproperly blended EBP is highly hygroscopic, it absorbs water (from atmospheric humidity and rainwater seepage into the underground tanks at petrol pumps) which [&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-433203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433203","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=433203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}