{"id":205120,"date":"2019-05-16T15:33:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/car\/mixed-petrol-price-predicted-june\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:56:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:56:58","slug":"mixed-petrol-price-predicted-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/motoring\/2019\/05\/16\/mixed-petrol-price-predicted-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed petrol price predicted for June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on unaudited data released by the Central Energy Fund on Wednesday (15 May), the AA said a slightly weaker Rand versus the US Dollar and slipping international oil prices point to a seven cents a litre drop in the price of petrol, but a 12 cents rise in diesel with illuminating paraffin forecasted to go up by nine cents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, we remind [consumers] that the forthcoming Carbon Tax is due for introduction on June 5, and will add an additional nine cents a litre to the petrol price, and ten cents to the diesel price. Our hope is that the new government will immediately set out its policy agenda which has a direct impact on fuel prices,\u201d the AA said.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Towards the end of business on Thursday (16 May), the national currency was trading at R14.17 to the greenback with Brent Crude Oil at $71.95 a barrel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><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='a96e4e0c908ef37bb2520b3e661a325f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Automobile Association (AA) has warned of a mixed fuel price for June with a slight decrease in the price of petrol, but yet another uptake in the price of diesel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8257,"featured_media":205124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Charl Bosch","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Motoring","SubCategory":"Bikes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205120","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\/8257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}