{"id":101640,"date":"2015-10-19T19:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=101640"},"modified":"2015-10-19T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T15:39:00","slug":"petrol-price-relief-on-the-cards-for-sa-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/101640\/petrol-price-relief-on-the-cards-for-sa-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price relief on the cards for SA consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African motorists are in for some relief in November, according to forecasts\u00a0 from Solidarity Research.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Joubert, senior researcher at Solidarity, said that he expects the price of petrol to decrease about 20 cents, with diesel seen about 10 cents cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>It comes on the back of a slight decrease by <strong>2\u00a0cents<\/strong> per litre for 93 EPU\/LRP petrol, and an increase of <strong>4\u00a0cents <\/strong>for 95 EPU\/LRP petrol in October.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel however, increased by as much as <strong>53<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>cents<\/strong> and <strong>51<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>cents<\/strong> per litre for 0.05% and 0.005% sulphur, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Joubert pointed to the fairly significant strengthening of the rand in recent sessions, which if continued up to the end of October, is likely to transfer to cheaper petrol prices.<\/p>\n<p>These figures are, of course, subject to revision, the researcher said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the petrol price<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/101468\/petrol-price-set-for-slight-increase-in-november\/\">Petrol price set for slight increase in November<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/100124\/official-petrol-prices-for-october-2015\/\">Official petrol prices for October 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/96675\/7-things-you-need-to-know-about-debt-in-south-africa\/\"><strong>7 things you need to know about debt in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African motorists are in for some relief in November, according to forecasts  from Solidarity Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":78155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26,1632],"class_list":["post-101640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-headline","tag-solidarity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101642,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101640\/revisions\/101642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}