{"id":518700,"date":"2022-09-02T11:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T05:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=518700"},"modified":"2022-09-02T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T05:34:47","slug":"diesel-sales-slip-for-2nd-month-in-row-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/diesel-sales-slip-for-2nd-month-in-row-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel sales slip for 2nd month in row in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s diesel consumption continued to slip for the second month in a row in August &#8211; though at a slower pace than earlier &#8211; as monsoon rains suppressed construction activities and lowered demand from the farm sector, but remained well above the pre-pandemic levels in keeping with the pace of the country&#8217;s economic growth.<br \/>\nPetrol sales, however, rebounded to post a growth of almost 6% after recouping a similar monthly drop in July, market data showed on Thursday.<br \/>\nAugust diesel consumption fell nearly 5% from a month ago. But the sales were 11.6% higher than August 2019 and 23.5% more than the corresponding year-ago period, underlining strong fundamentals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s diesel consumption continued to slip for the second month in a row in August &#8211; though at a slower pace than earlier &#8211; as monsoon rains suppressed construction activities and lowered demand from the farm sector, but remained well above the pre-pandemic levels in keeping with the pace of the country&#8217;s economic growth. Petrol sales, however, rebounded to post a growth of almost 6% after recouping a similar monthly drop in July, market data showed on Thursday. August diesel consumption fell nearly 5% from a month ago. But the sales were 11.6% higher than August 2019 and [&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-518700","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\/518700","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=518700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}