{"id":77937,"date":"2015-01-06T16:12:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T14:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=77937"},"modified":"2015-01-06T21:24:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T19:24:27","slug":"petrol-price-drop-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/06\/petrol-price-drop-midnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price to drop at midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The energy department has confirmed that the price of petrol will decrease by R1.27 a litre at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel will decrease by R1.05 a litre, with illuminating paraffin decreasing by R1.44 a litre and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) decreasing by R2.10 a kilogram.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Minister of energy, Tina Joematt-Pettersson said in a press release that this huge decrease in the fuel prices would be a big relief to motorists and users of LPG and paraffin, in particular the low-income households.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported the main reason for the fuel price decreases is the continued drop in the price of crude oil which led to a decrease in the prices of petroleum products in the international markets.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>However, the depreciation of the rand against the US dollar led to an increase in the contribution to the Basic Fuel Price by between 17.92 c\/l and 19.75 c\/l.<\/p>\n<p>This was off-set by the drop in the crude oil price during the period under review.<\/p>\n<p>Do you feel the drop in the petrol price will benefit consumers?<\/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='17e9a17b8b49a5e444ef8cd2f00b145b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will the drop in the petrol price benefit consumers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":77938,"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":[8297,6208,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,5214,5215],"class_list":["post-77937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-drop-in-petrol-price","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-petrol","tag-petrol-price"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","drop in petrol price","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","petrol","petrol price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77937","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=77937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}