{"id":76519,"date":"2015-01-02T18:17:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T16:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=76519"},"modified":"2015-01-02T18:17:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T16:17:36","slug":"petrol-price-to-drop-by-r1-27-per-litre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/76519\/petrol-price-to-drop-by-r1-27-per-litre\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price to drop by R1.27 per litre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of 93 and 95 octane petrol will decrease by R1.27 and R1.23 a litre on Wednesday, the energy department said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The price of diesel would decrease by between R1.04 and R1.05 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>The price of illuminating paraffin would decrease by R1.44 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>Liquefied petroleum gas would decrease by R2.10\/kg.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Automobile Association predicted the petrol price would drop by between R1.05 to R1.07 cents per litre, and the price of diesel by around R0.85.<\/p>\n<p>The weakening of the Rand\/US dollar exchange rate contributed to an increase in the fuel price. This was however offset by the drop in international oil prices.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"BodyP\">More on the petrol price<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Big fuel cut projected for January: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/76194\/big-fuel-cut-expected-in-january-report\/\"><strong>Big fuel cut projected for January: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"SA petrol price to drop 69 cents\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/74740\/sa-petrol-price-to-drop-69-cents\/\">SA petrol price to drop 69 cents<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Petrol price could drop by 72c in December\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/73896\/petrol-price-could-drop-by-72c-in-december\/\"><strong>Petrol price could drop by 72c in December<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of 93 and 95 octane petrol will decrease by R1.27 and R1.23 a litre on Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,2171],"class_list":["post-76519","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\/76519","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=76519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76525,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76519\/revisions\/76525"}],"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=76519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}