{"id":84989,"date":"2015-03-30T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T07:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=84989"},"modified":"2015-03-30T09:51:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T07:51:52","slug":"petrol-price-to-increase-from-april-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/30\/petrol-price-to-increase-from-april-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price to increase from April 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of speculation the department of energy has confirmed that the price of petrol will increase by R1.62 per litre from Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of 95 ULP and LRP will \u00a0increase by R1,62, 93 ULP and LRP will increase by R1,56 per litre, with diseal set to increase by R1.24 per litre.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Illuminating paraffin will cost 26 cents more per litre and liquefied petroleum gas, will in the meantime increase by 85 cents per kilogram.<\/p>\n<p>The department of energy announced the increase on Friday and explained the the reasons\u00a0for the increase include the combined 80,5 cents for the Fuel and Road Accident Fund levies on petrol and diesel as announced in the February budget and the weaker rand.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>How do you think this latest increase will affect 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='db2b39d8cc6a65fe0b026b06030921e8'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists set to pay R 1.62 more per litre from Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":84990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,5213,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-84989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-fuel-price","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","fuel price","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84989","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=84989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}