{"id":36710,"date":"2013-04-26T13:40:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T11:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=36710"},"modified":"2013-04-26T13:41:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T11:41:06","slug":"petrol-price-good-news-for-motorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/36710\/petrol-price-good-news-for-motorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price: good news for motorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of petrol will decrease by 73 cents a litre from midnight next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The wholesale price of diesel with a sulphur content of 0.05 percent will drop by 55.560 cents a litre, and diesel with a sulphur content of 0.005 percent by 56.560 cents a litre, the energy department said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The wholesale price of illuminating paraffin would decrease by 58 cents a litre.<\/p>\n<p>The department said that in the period under review, the average international product prices of petrol, diesel, and illuminating paraffin decreased.<\/p>\n<p>The average rand\/US dollar exchange rate strengthened compared to the previous period.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the fuel price<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Petrol set for massive hike\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/32659\/petrol-set-for-massive-hike\/\">Petrol set for massive hike<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Petrol price shock\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/31840\/petrol-price-shock\/\">Petrol price shock<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Petrol price set to rise in February\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/30143\/petrol-set-to-rise-in-february\/\"><strong>Petrol price set to rise in February<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists will get some relief as the price of petrol is set decrease next Tuesday (30 April 2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,2171],"class_list":["post-36710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-petrol-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36710","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36712,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36710\/revisions\/36712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}