{"id":471779,"date":"2022-02-28T11:10:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T05:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=471779"},"modified":"2022-02-28T12:10:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T06:40:21","slug":"fuel-prices-raised-in-sri-lanka-as-energy-crisis-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-prices-raised-in-sri-lanka-as-energy-crisis-worsens\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel prices raised in Sri Lanka as energy crisis worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Sri Lanka&#8217;s biggest fuel suppliers put up its prices by as much as 12 per cent on Saturday, as the cash-strapped island&#8217;s energy crisis worsened. <\/p>\n<p>Lanka IOC, a fuel retailer which accounts for a third of the market, said it was increasing prices for diesel &#8212; commonly used by public transport &#8212; by 12 per cent, and petrol up 11 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The increases came after a seven per cent price rise three weeks ago and will add to the upward pressure on inflation, already at a record high. <\/p>\n<p>The island is in the grips of an economic crisis after the tourism sector, a key foreign-exchange earner, collapsed in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Sri Lanka&#8217;s biggest fuel suppliers put up its prices by as much as 12 per cent on Saturday, as the cash-strapped island&#8217;s energy crisis worsened. Lanka IOC, a fuel retailer which accounts for a third of the market, said it was increasing prices for diesel &#8212; commonly used by public transport &#8212; by 12 per cent, and petrol up 11 per cent. The increases came after a seven per cent price rise three weeks ago and will add to the upward pressure on inflation, already at a record high. The island is in the grips of an economic [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471779","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=471779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}