{"id":660615,"date":"2026-05-18T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660615"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:25:16","slug":"another-fuel-blow-for-consumers-economists-warn-petrol-diesel-prices-could-jump-further-heres-the-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/another-fuel-blow-for-consumers-economists-warn-petrol-diesel-prices-could-jump-further-heres-the-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Another fuel blow for consumers? Economists warn petrol, diesel prices could jump further \u2013 Here\u2019s the outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prices of petrol and diesel are expected to rise further, even by \u20b910 per litre, economists are warning.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) \u2014 which account for nearly 90% of the domestic fuel retail market \u2014 raised petrol and diesel prices by over \u20b93 per litre each on Friday. The move came as crude prices continued to surge amid US-Iran tensions and peace negotiations to end the West Asia war remained in limbo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prices of petrol and diesel are expected to rise further, even by \u20b910 per litre, economists are warning. India\u2019s state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) \u2014 which account for nearly 90% of the domestic fuel retail market \u2014 raised petrol and diesel prices by over \u20b93 per litre each on Friday. The move came as crude prices continued to surge amid US-Iran tensions and peace negotiations to end the West Asia war remained in limbo.<\/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-660615","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\/660615","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=660615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660616,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660615\/revisions\/660616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}