{"id":57797,"date":"2014-05-16T12:45:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T10:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=57797"},"modified":"2014-05-16T13:03:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T11:03:32","slug":"another-petrol-price-drop-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/57797\/another-petrol-price-drop-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Another petrol price drop on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more favourable rand exchange rate and stable international petroleum prices could result in a fuel price drop in June, the Automobile Association of SA (AA) said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The current data was indicating a drop of between 26 and 30 cents per litre for petrol, and between 20 and 22 cents per litre for diesel,&#8221; the AA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We obviously hope that the current trends will continue so that the reductions will be bigger by the end of May. Motorists have had a tough time lately and could do with a break.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The AA said the price of illuminating paraffin could drop by 14 cents a litre.<\/p>\n<p>On May 7, the price of all grades of petrol dropped by 15 cents a litre, diesel decreased by 29.78 cents a litre, illuminating paraffin by 25 cents, and LP gas by four cents.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Fuel prices<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Petrol price relief for SA motorists\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/56747\/petrol-price-relief-for-sa-motorists\/\"><strong>Petrol price relief for SA motorists<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"More petrol pain for consumers\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/55021\/more-petrol-pain-for-consumers\/\"><strong>More petrol pain for consumers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Petrol price to hit R16 a litre?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/52615\/petrol-price-to-hit-r16-a-litre\/\"><strong>Petrol price to hit R16 a litre?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more favourable rand exchange rate and stable international petroleum prices could result in a fuel price drop in June, the Automobile Association of SA (AA) said on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":57817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6926,2241,26],"class_list":["post-57797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-aa","tag-fuel-price","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57797","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=57797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57801,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57797\/revisions\/57801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}