{"id":59327,"date":"2014-05-30T16:10:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T14:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=59327"},"modified":"2014-05-30T16:10:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T14:10:03","slug":"petrol-price-good-news-for-motorists-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/59327\/petrol-price-good-news-for-motorists-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price: good news for motorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of all grades of petrol will drop by 22 cents a litre next month, the energy department said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The price of diesel with 0.05 percent sulphur would decrease by 23.58 cents a litre, and that of diesel with 0.005 percent sulphur by 25.58 cents a litre.<\/p>\n<p>The wholesale illuminating paraffin price would drop by 10 cents a litre, and that of illuminating paraffin by 13 cents a litre.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum retail price for LP Gas would fall by 27 cents a litre.<\/p>\n<p>The new prices would come into effect on Wednesday, the department said in a statement.<\/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 price of all grades of petrol will drop by 22 cents a litre next month, the energy department 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":[26,2171],"class_list":["post-59327","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\/59327","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=59327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59329,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59327\/revisions\/59329"}],"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=59327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}