{"id":495621,"date":"2022-06-02T11:04:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T05:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=495621"},"modified":"2022-06-02T11:04:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T05:34:14","slug":"petrol-sales-jump-steep-56-diesel-39-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-sales-jump-steep-56-diesel-39-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol sales jump steep 56%, diesel 39% in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s fuel sales rose steeply in May as people set out on driving holidays in the hills to escape the searing heat of the plains and economic activities expanded at a trot.<br \/>\nPetrol consumption rose nearly 56% and the sale of diesel, the fuel used the most, shot up 39% from a year ago, industry data shows. Diesel sales were also boosted by the harvesting season demand from the farm sector.<br \/>\nThe growth in consumption looks healthier at nearly 76% and 41.5%, respectively, compared to May 2020. But compared to May 2019, data shows a modest increase of 12% in petrol sales, while diesel consumption still remains 2.3% short of the pre-pandemic level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s fuel sales rose steeply in May as people set out on driving holidays in the hills to escape the searing heat of the plains and economic activities expanded at a trot. Petrol consumption rose nearly 56% and the sale of diesel, the fuel used the most, shot up 39% from a year ago, industry data shows. Diesel sales were also boosted by the harvesting season demand from the farm sector. The growth in consumption looks healthier at nearly 76% and 41.5%, respectively, compared to May 2020. But compared to May 2019, data shows a modest increase of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-495621","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\/495621","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}