{"id":651057,"date":"2025-11-03T08:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=651057"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:23:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:53:41","slug":"october-petrol-sales-up-7-diesel-down-0-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/october-petrol-sales-up-7-diesel-down-0-5\/","title":{"rendered":"October petrol sales up 7%, diesel down 0.5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Petrol sales rose 7% year-on-year in October as the festival season boosted travel and vehicle purchases. Diesel sales, however, slipped 0.5% after an unusually strong 6% jump in September, according to oil ministry data. Aviation turbine fuel (ATF) sales increased 1.6% and cooking gas (LPG) sales rose 5.4%. For the April-October period, ATF and LPG sales were up 1% and 7%, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>Diesel sales have increased 2.5% so far this fiscal, while petrol sales are up 6.8%. Diesel accounts for about 40% of India&#8217;s refined-fuel consumption by volume. Its extensive use in transportation, agriculture, mining, manufacturing and power generation makes it a broad indicator of economic activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Petrol sales rose 7% year-on-year in October as the festival season boosted travel and vehicle purchases. Diesel sales, however, slipped 0.5% after an unusually strong 6% jump in September, according to oil ministry data. Aviation turbine fuel (ATF) sales increased 1.6% and cooking gas (LPG) sales rose 5.4%. For the April-October period, ATF and LPG sales were up 1% and 7%, respectively. Diesel sales have increased 2.5% so far this fiscal, while petrol sales are up 6.8%. Diesel accounts for about 40% of India&#8217;s refined-fuel consumption by volume. Its extensive use in transportation, agriculture, mining, manufacturing and power [&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-651057","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\/651057","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=651057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}