{"id":80184,"date":"2015-02-04T15:35:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T13:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=80184"},"modified":"2015-02-04T12:34:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T10:34:52","slug":"petrol-price-drop-93-cents-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/02\/04\/petrol-price-drop-93-cents-midnight\/","title":{"rendered":"The petrol price has decreased by 93 cents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists were treated to an even lower petrol price as they filled their tanks this morning (Wednesday).<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Energy confirmed that petrol has dropped in price.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Based on current local and international factors, the fuel prices have dropped in the following ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Petrol has decreased by 93 cents per litre,<\/li>\n<li>Diesel has decreased by R1.02 per litre,<\/li>\n<li>Illuminating paraffin (SMNRP) has decreased by R1.36\u00a0per litre,<\/li>\n<li>Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) has decreased by R1.50 per kilogram.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Minister of Energy, Tina Joematt-Pettersson said, \u201cThe 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 (petrol, diesel, illuminating paraffin and LPG) in the international markets.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Despite the latest drop in the fuel price motorists are urged to still use their petrol sparingly.<\/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='28d06484985f85172ebd1a0fdca32bb7'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More relief at the pumps for motorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":80185,"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],"class_list":["post-80184","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"],"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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80184","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=80184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}