{"id":217177,"date":"2017-12-30T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=217177"},"modified":"2017-12-30T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T13:04:10","slug":"here-is-the-official-petrol-price-for-january-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/217177\/here-is-the-official-petrol-price-for-january-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Here is the official petrol price for January 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The department of energy has published the petrol and diesel price changes which will come into effect on Wednesday, 3 January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Following five months of increases, motorists will start the new year with a bit of relief, with the price of petrol and diesel decreasing.<\/p>\n<p>93 ULP petrol will decrease by 29 cents per litre, while 95 ULP will be down by 34 cents per litre.<\/p>\n<p>The wholesale price of 0.005% diesel will be down by 26 cents per litre, while 0.05% diesel will be down by 22 cents.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefgroup.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Press-Release-28-Dec-2017-Change-03-Jan-2018-V3.pdf\">full changes can be read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0the average international product prices of Petrol, Diesel and Illuminating Paraffin increased during the period under review, the rand&#8217;s strength against the dollar helped lower fuel prices overall.<\/p>\n<p>The rand appreciated against the US Dollar during the period under review, on average, when compared to the previous period.<\/p>\n<p>The average Rand\/US Dollar exchange rate for the period 01 December 2017 to 27 December 2017 was 13.2303 compared to 14.0964 during the previous period.<\/p>\n<p>This led to a lower contribution to the Basic Fuels Price on petrol, diesel and illuminating paraffin by 42.03c\/l, 42.75c\/l and 42.90c\/l respectively, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the official adjustments (inland prices)<\/p>\n<div class=\"bt_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"40%\">Fuel<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"30%\">December official<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"30%\">January official<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>93 Petrol<\/td>\n<td>R14.49<\/td>\n<td>R14.20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>95 Petrol<\/td>\n<td>R14.76<\/td>\n<td>R14.42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>0.05% Diesel (wholesale)<\/td>\n<td>R12.96<\/td>\n<td>R12.74<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/215307\/petrol-price-in-south-africa-is-at-a-record-high\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Petrol price in South Africa is at a record high<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The department of energy has published the petrol and diesel price changes which will come into effect on Wednesday, 3 January 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":124401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217177","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=217177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217355,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217177\/revisions\/217355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}