{"id":227647,"date":"2020-01-15T13:49:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T11:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citybuzz.co.za\/car\/news\/uncategorized\/petrol-price-bad-news-motorists\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:55:45","slug":"petrol-price-bad-news-motorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/motoring\/2020\/01\/15\/petrol-price-bad-news-motorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price: Bad news for motorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This rise means bad news for fuel users and comes at a time when many consumers are already feeling the financial pinch,&#8221; Automobile Association (AA).<\/p>\n<p>While unleaded 95 octane petrol is expected to drop by eight cents a litre, 93 octane petrol, diesel and illuminating paraffin are all predicted to rise. Consumers of 93 octane petrol can expect a cent-a-litre rise while diesel users can expect 13 cents for both grades. Illuminating paraffin is only expected to rise by 10 cents.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;International oil prices surged by nearly two dollars a gallon in late December 2019 before beginning a recovery which was halted by the recent tensions between the USA and Iran. In the first week of January 2020, the two-dollar mark was tested again, albeit with a slight recovery since,&#8221; says the AA.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing to the price increases is the weakening Rand to the US dollar dropping as low as R13.95 at the end of December 2019. \u201cThe Rand&#8217;s performance will be key in keeping any further oil hikes at bay,&#8221; the Automobile Association (AA) concluded.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='8cb6da8dcdab96cba8856172fc85224d'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on unaudited mid-month fuel price data released by the Central Energy Fund, the Automobile Association warns motorists of an increase in fuel price during February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8257,"featured_media":227648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Autodealer","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227647","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\/227647","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=227647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}