{"id":140112,"date":"2016-12-06T06:53:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T04:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=140112"},"modified":"2016-12-07T08:53:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T06:53:22","slug":"slight-relief-for-motorists-heading-into-the-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/12\/06\/slight-relief-for-motorists-heading-into-the-festive-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Slight relief for motorists heading into the festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we head into the festive season motorists will have slight relief at the pumps with a 1.5 per cent drop in the petrol price.<\/p>\n<p>The new price on both 93 and 95 octane petrol\u00a0will come into effect from Wedensday, December 7.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>While the price of wholesale diesel will drop by 2.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the price of 93 octane petrol will fall by 20 cents to R12.59 per litre, with the 95 octane, also dropping by 20 cents, will cost R12.85 per litre, while diesel will decrease by 32 cents to R11.03 per litre.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The drop in price has been attributed to the strengthening rand against a drop in international oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>The price of paraffin will drop by 38 cents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/140080\/what-it-means-to-be-a-volunteer\/\" target=\"_blank\">What it means to be a volunteer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/139989\/mamba-spreads-some-christmas-cheer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mamba spreads some Christmas cheer<\/a><\/p>\n<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='e10653ec9b12b1de0a47da1ed83cf89e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of 93 and 95 octane petrol will fall by 20 cents from Wednesday, December 7. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":126129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,5214],"class_list":["post-140112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-petrol"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","petrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140112","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}