{"id":86302,"date":"2015-05-02T00:15:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T22:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=86302"},"modified":"2015-05-02T00:18:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T22:18:08","slug":"petrol-price-unchanged-diesel-decrease-for-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/86302\/petrol-price-unchanged-diesel-decrease-for-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price unchanged, diesel decrease for May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The petrol price will remain unchanged in May, while the cost of diesel, illuminating paraffin, and liquid petroleum gas will come down, the Department of Energy said on 1 May.<\/p>\n<p>The department said\u00a0the main factors contributing to this month\u2019s price adjustments were the average increase in the crude oil and petrol prices internationally, and the slightly weaker Rand during April 2015 compared to March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa imports both crude oil and finished products at a price set by the global markets.<\/p>\n<p>These fuel price adjustment will be effective from 6 May 2015, and will be as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Diesel<\/strong> will decrease by 5 cents per litre.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Petrol<\/strong> will remain unchanged.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Illuminating paraffin<\/strong> will decrease by 7 cents per litre.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Liquefied Petroleum Gas<\/strong> will decrease by 17 cents per kilogram.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full pricing schedule for South Africa\u2019s different zones will be published on 5 May.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on fuel prices<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/85353\/petrol-price-decrease-coming-aa\/\"><strong>Petrol price decrease coming: AA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/83731\/huge-petrol-price-hike-for-april\/\"><strong>Huge petrol price hike for April<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/83233\/electricity-petrol-price-double-blow-for-sa-consumers\/\"><strong>Electricity, petrol price double blow for SA consumers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/81037\/massive-petrol-price-increase-in-march\/\"><strong>Massive petrol price increase in March<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Energy has announced decreases to diesel, paraffin, and gas, while the petrol price remains unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":78155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4531,2241,26,9804,9557,3994,2171],"class_list":["post-86302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-diesel","tag-fuel-price","tag-headline","tag-liquid-petroleum-gas-lpg","tag-paraffin","tag-petrol","tag-petrol-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86302","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=86302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86312,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86302\/revisions\/86312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}