{"id":103821,"date":"2015-11-03T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=103821"},"modified":"2015-11-03T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T09:00:01","slug":"fuel-price-to-drop-at-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/11\/03\/fuel-price-to-drop-at-midnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel price to drop at midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sustained declines in international oil prices since mid-month will bring some relief at the pumps at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to the Automobile Association (AA) which was commenting on unaudited fuel price data released at month-end by the Central Energy Fund (CEF).<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\u201cOur mid-month concerns over stronger oil prices have been allayed by an ongoing retreat,\u201d the AA said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation has been further strengthened by a modest flattening of the Rand\/US dollar exchange rate, although there are again signs of an uptick which has the potential to affect fuel pricing towards year-end.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The reduction in diesel prices is likely to be muted, with the data indicating a drop of between eight and nine cents a litre.<\/p>\n<p>Illuminating paraffin is expected to be down by only three cents or so, but the petrol price is showing declines of between 18 and 22 cents a litre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFuel prices have returned to levels last seen in March of this year,\u201d the AA commented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, volatility in both oil prices and the exchange rate continues to be evident, and we advise motorists not to take future price reductions for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='9466e40a4a6208766276ec9d1a70aa70'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Association advises motorists not to take future price reductions for granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":72087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,7,2],"tags":[5699,5698,5213,969,2734,5214],"class_list":["post-103821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-aa","tag-automobile-association","tag-fuel-price","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-petrol"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["aa","Automobile Association","fuel price","germiston city news","melissa hart","petrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}