{"id":114636,"date":"2016-02-28T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T13:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=114636"},"modified":"2016-02-28T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T13:52:06","slug":"sa-petrol-price-to-drop-69-cents-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/114636\/sa-petrol-price-to-drop-69-cents-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"SA petrol price to drop 69 cents on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorist will be paying less for petrol in March, while the price of diesel will increase, according to the Department of Energy.<\/p>\n<p>The petrol price will come down by 69 cents a litre (c\/l) from midnight on Wednesday March 2, while the wholesale price of diesel will increase by up to 15 c\/l.<\/p>\n<p>The wholesale price of illuminating paraffin will increase by 17 c\/l and maximum retail price of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) will drop by R1.20 per kg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe average international product prices of petrol decreased while diesel and illuminating paraffin increased during the period under review,\u201d the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the current inland prices for petrol and diesel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>93 LRP \u2013 <strong>R12.15<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>95 LRP \u2013 <strong>R12.43<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Diesel 0.05% Sulphur \u2013 <strong>R9.43<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Diesel 0.005% Sulphur \u2013 <strong>R9.47<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/petrol-price-breather-for-motorists-20160228-2\" target=\"_blank\">Fin24<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the petrol price<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to What the SA petrol price could look like in 2020\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/105899\/what-the-sa-petrol-price-could-look-like-in-2020\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">What the SA petrol price could look like in 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/114200\/how-the-new-fuel-levy-will-hit-south-africas-petrol-price\/\">How the new fuel levy will hit South Africa\u2019s petrol price<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/111527\/how-much-money-petrol-attendants-earn-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>How much money petrol attendants earn in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorist will be paying less for petrol in March, while the price of diesel will increase, according to the Department of Energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":48793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26,3994],"class_list":["post-114636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-headline","tag-petrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114636","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114640,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114636\/revisions\/114640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}