{"id":511089,"date":"2022-08-02T11:44:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T06:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=511089"},"modified":"2022-08-02T11:44:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T06:14:23","slug":"petrol-sales-rise-12-diesel-up-18-as-economy-gathers-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-sales-rise-12-diesel-up-18-as-economy-gathers-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol sales rise 12%, diesel up 18% as economy gathers steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol and diesel sales rose 12% and 18%, respectively, in July over the last year&#8217;s low base and as economic activity gained pace, according to the preliminary data from state-run oil companies.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol sales were 16% higher than in July of 2019 while diesel sales were 5% higher. Petrol had quickly recovered from the pains of the pandemic after lockdowns were lifted but diesel has taken very long to reach the pre-Covid levels. In the past two months, the demand for diesel has risen at a scorching pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol and diesel sales rose 12% and 18%, respectively, in July over the last year&#8217;s low base and as economic activity gained pace, according to the preliminary data from state-run oil companies. Petrol sales were 16% higher than in July of 2019 while diesel sales were 5% higher. Petrol had quickly recovered from the pains of the pandemic after lockdowns were lifted but diesel has taken very long to reach the pre-Covid levels. In the past two months, the demand for diesel has risen at a scorching pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-511089","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\/511089","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}