{"id":51264,"date":"2013-12-27T13:26:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T11:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=51264"},"modified":"2013-12-27T13:28:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T11:28:34","slug":"petrol-price-to-increase-by-39-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/51264\/petrol-price-to-increase-by-39-cents\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price to increase by 39 cents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of petrol will increase by 39 cents, and diesel by 32 cents a litre on January 1, the energy department said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The price of 93 octane unleaded petrol and lead replacement petrol would go up by 39c, and that of 95 octane by 38c\/l, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Both grades of diesel would go up by 32c, while the price of illuminating paraffin would increase by between 39 and 52c\/l.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum retail price for LP gas would go up 56c\/kg.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining the increase, the department said the average international prices of petrol, diesel and illuminating paraffin increased during the period under review, November 29 to December 26.<\/p>\n<p>The average rand\/US dollar exchange rate weakened to 10.3581 compared to 10.2121 during the previous period.<\/p>\n<p>The fuel levy would increase to 10.96c\/l from January 1.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on petrol prices<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Petrol relief for SA motorists\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/48792\/petrol-relief-for-sa-motorists\/\"><strong>Petrol relief for SA motorists<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Petrol price seen lower\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/48544\/petrol-price-seen-lower\/\"><strong>Petrol price seen lower<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"Petrol price to drop as oil prices settle\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/46783\/petrol-price-to-drop-as-oil-prices-settle\/\"><strong>Petrol price to drop as oil prices settle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of petrol will increase by 39 cents, and diesel by 32 cents a litre on January 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26,3994,7262],"class_list":["post-51264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline","tag-petrol","tag-petrol-pirce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51264","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=51264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51266,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51264\/revisions\/51266"}],"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=51264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}