{"id":262015,"date":"2018-07-30T18:39:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T16:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=262015"},"modified":"2018-07-30T18:39:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T16:39:07","slug":"petrol-price-to-increase-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/262015\/petrol-price-to-increase-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price to increase on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hard pressed motorists, waiting for a reprieve, will have to contend with a petrol price increase of one cent a litre on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Both Grades of 93 and 95 (ULP and LRP) will rise by a cent. This will take a litre of 95 from R16.02 to R16.03 in Gauteng.<\/p>\n

In its statement on Monday, the Department of Energy said both grades of diesel namely Diesel 0.05% and 0.005% Sulphur will decrease by four cents.<\/p>\n

The wholesale price of Illuminating Paraffin (Wholesale) will rise by four cents while that of Illuminating Paraffin (SMNRP) will increase by five cents.<\/p>\n

The Maximum Retail Price for LPGAS will increase by 17 cents per kilogram.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe average international product prices of petrol and diesel and illuminating paraffin decreased during the period under review,\u201d said the department.<\/p>\n

The price increases will come into effect on Wednesday (1 August 2018).<\/p>\n

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Read: 7 ways you can save on petrol<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hard pressed motorists, waiting for a reprieve, will have to contend with a petrol price increase of one cent a litre on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":131792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-262015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262015","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262017,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262015\/revisions\/262017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}