{"id":53751,"date":"2014-02-28T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=53751"},"modified":"2014-02-28T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T10:00:08","slug":"hefty-fuel-price-hike-coming-in-march-aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/53751\/hefty-fuel-price-hike-coming-in-march-aa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hefty fuel price hike coming in March: AA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African consumers could face yet another fuel price increase in March, the Automobile Association said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This was because of strong international crude oil prices, which &#8220;had overpowered the appreciating rand&#8221;, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Central Energy Fund data is currently suggesting a fuel price hike of up to <strong>34c per litre for petrol<\/strong>, 26c per litre for diesel and 16c per litre for illuminating paraffin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was little chance of either a surge in the rand&#8217;s strength or a retreat in international oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, we expect the fuel price increase for March to be in the region of the current numbers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on petrol prices<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Fuel prices: buckle up for a tough 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/51043\/fuel-prices-buckle-up-for-a-tough-2014\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Fuel prices: buckle up for a tough 2014<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Petrol price hike in December\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/50337\/petrol-price-hike-in-december\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Petrol price hike in December<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African consumers could face yet another fuel price increase in March, the Automobile Association said on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3328,2241,26,2171],"class_list":["post-53751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-automobile-association","tag-fuel-price","tag-headline","tag-petrol-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53751","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=53751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53752,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53751\/revisions\/53752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}