{"id":660326,"date":"2026-05-02T11:28:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660326"},"modified":"2026-05-02T11:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:58:46","slug":"after-commercial-lpg-will-petrol-and-diesel-prices-increase-in-near-future-heres-what-govt-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/after-commercial-lpg-will-petrol-and-diesel-prices-increase-in-near-future-heres-what-govt-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"After commercial LPG, will petrol and diesel prices increase in near future? Here&#8217;s what govt sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rise in petrol and diesel prices cannot be ruled out in the near term, according to PTI citing government sources on Friday, as losses continue to grow due to a four-year cap on retail rates amid a steep rise in global crude oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>International oil prices surged this week, briefly touching a four-year high of $126 per barrel before easing slightly, though they remained above $110. The sustained rise has been driven by restricted ship movements through the Strait of Hormuz and heightened tensions between the United States and Iran, with both sides exchanging sharp remarks amid stalled peace negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rise in petrol and diesel prices cannot be ruled out in the near term, according to PTI citing government sources on Friday, as losses continue to grow due to a four-year cap on retail rates amid a steep rise in global crude oil prices. International oil prices surged this week, briefly touching a four-year high of $126 per barrel before easing slightly, though they remained above $110. The sustained rise has been driven by restricted ship movements through the Strait of Hormuz and heightened tensions between the United States and Iran, with both sides exchanging sharp remarks amid stalled [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660326","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\/660326","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=660326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660328,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660326\/revisions\/660328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}