{"id":64676,"date":"2014-08-01T15:28:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T13:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=64676"},"modified":"2014-08-01T15:30:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T13:30:20","slug":"petrol-price-unchanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/64676\/petrol-price-unchanged\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"focusParagraph\">The retail price of petrol in South Africa will remain unchanged at R14.33 rand a litre from next Wednesday, the Department of Energy said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The price of<span class=\"focusParagraph\"> wholesale diesel will dip by 0.4%,<\/span> from R12.90 (0.05%) to R12,84.<\/p>\n<p>This news should come as relief to some motorists who were expecting a large jump in the price.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday (31 July), the\u00a0Automobile Association warned that the petrol price could rise by 26 cents per litre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a slow, but steady uptick in the Rand\/US dollar exchange rate since the start of July,\u201d it said as rationale for its view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the same period, international petroleum prices have come off their mid-June highs, but not enough to offset the under-recovery in the petrol price.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the petrol price<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Another fuel hike on the way\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/64604\/another-fuel-hike-on-the-way\/\"><strong>Another fuel hike on the way<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Big petrol price hike for SA motorists\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/62855\/big-petrol-price-hike-for-sa-motorists\/\"><strong>Big petrol price hike for SA motorists<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\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><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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The retail price of petrol in South Africa will remain unchanged at R14.33 rand a litre from next Wednesday, the Department of Energy said on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4743,26],"class_list":["post-64676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-fuel","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64676","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64698,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64676\/revisions\/64698"}],"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=64676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}