{"id":462098,"date":"2022-01-17T09:20:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T03:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=462098"},"modified":"2022-01-17T09:50:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T04:20:54","slug":"omicron-curbs-dampen-motor-fuel-demand-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/omicron-curbs-dampen-motor-fuel-demand-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron curbs dampen motor fuel demand in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of petrol and diesel in the first half of January dipped by 3% and 5%, respectively, from a year ago, as Omicron brought back work-from-home and several travel restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with the first fortnight of January 2020, petrol sales, which had recovered quickly from the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, were still 6% higher, as per the sales data from state-run oil companies that control about 90% of petrol pumps in the country. Diesel sales, however, were 8% lower than in January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Jet fuel consumption grew by 7% from a year earlier though it was 38% lower compared with the January of 2020. Continuing curbs on international travel have never allowed the aviation industry to go anywhere near the pre-Covid normal in the past two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of petrol and diesel in the first half of January dipped by 3% and 5%, respectively, from a year ago, as Omicron brought back work-from-home and several travel restrictions. Compared with the first fortnight of January 2020, petrol sales, which had recovered quickly from the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, were still 6% higher, as per the sales data from state-run oil companies that control about 90% of petrol pumps in the country. Diesel sales, however, were 8% lower than in January 2020. Jet fuel consumption grew by 7% from a year earlier though it was [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462098","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=462098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}