{"id":659044,"date":"2026-03-06T11:48:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659044"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:48:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:18:53","slug":"amitabh-kant-sounds-grim-warning-for-india-amid-iran-war-triggered-fuel-crisis-every-10-per-barrel-rise-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amitabh-kant-sounds-grim-warning-for-india-amid-iran-war-triggered-fuel-crisis-every-10-per-barrel-rise-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Amitabh Kant sounds grim warning for India amid Iran war-triggered fuel crisis\u2014 \u2018Every $10 per barrel rise can\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former G20 Sherpa and ex-NITI Aayog chief Amitabh Kant on Thursday sounded a grim warning for India as crude oil prices continued to jump in the global market due to Tehran&#8217;s closure of the Strait of Hormuz amid the escalating US-Iran conflict.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Amitabh Kant flagged the rising price of crude oil, saying that every $10 increase in the per-barrel rate can mean an addition of up to $14 billion to India&#8217;s annual fuel import bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former G20 Sherpa and ex-NITI Aayog chief Amitabh Kant on Thursday sounded a grim warning for India as crude oil prices continued to jump in the global market due to Tehran&#8217;s closure of the Strait of Hormuz amid the escalating US-Iran conflict. In a post on X, Amitabh Kant flagged the rising price of crude oil, saying that every $10 increase in the per-barrel rate can mean an addition of up to $14 billion to India&#8217;s annual fuel import bill.<\/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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659044","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=659044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}