{"id":94372,"date":"2013-03-19T23:13:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T23:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2013\/03\/19\/diesel-sales-decline-for-first-time-since-may-2009\/"},"modified":"2013-03-19T23:13:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T23:13:29","slug":"diesel-sales-decline-for-first-time-since-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2013\/03\/19\/diesel-sales-decline-for-first-time-since-may-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel sales decline for first time since May 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Domestic diesel sales slipped 2 per cent in February from a year ago, the first fall since May 2009, as price hikes and improved electricity supplies reined in demand.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic diesel sales slipped 2 per cent in February from a year ago, the first fall since May 2009, as price hikes and improved electricity supplies reined in demand, government data showed on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The decline in diesel demand helped bring overall local fuel sales down 1.5 per cent in February from a year ago, the first decline since September 2010. <\/p>\n<p>Oil product sales, a proxy for oil demand in India, totalled 12.25 million tonnes in February compared with 12.44 million tonnes a year ago, according to the data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell of the oil ministry. <\/p>\n<p>Diesel consumption, which makes up over 40 per cent of local fuel sales, fell to 5.39 million tonnes, the data showed. <\/p>\n<p>India removed subsidies from diesel sold to bulk buyers in January and allowed state fuel retailers to raise retail prices by up to 0.50 rupees, or one US cent, a litre each month to gradually align them with market rates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic diesel sales slipped 2 per cent in February from a year ago, the first fall since May 2009, as price hikes and improved electricity supplies reined in demand. Domestic diesel sales slipped 2 per cent in February from a year ago, the first fall since May 2009, as price hikes and improved electricity supplies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}