{"id":88631,"date":"2015-05-05T09:38:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T07:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=88631"},"modified":"2015-05-05T09:38:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T07:38:54","slug":"fuel-prices-nearly-flat-for-may-says-aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/05\/05\/fuel-prices-nearly-flat-for-may-says-aa\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel prices nearly flat for May, says AA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africans can expect fuel prices to remain near their current levels in May, with changes of only a few cents per litre.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to the Automobile Association which was commenting on unaudited Central Energy Fund data released this week.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe slight over-recovery in the basic fuel price which was seen at mid-month has subsequently been offset by increased international petroleum prices and a modest weakening of the Rand against the US dollar,\u201d the Association commented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssessing the trajectory of the fuel price remains difficult, with considerable volatility evident in both the exchange rate and international product prices.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The AA said that despite the steep jump in fuel prices since February, the prices at the pumps were still well below the highs of over R14 a litre which were seen in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe advise motorists to take advantage of the current more moderate fuel price environment to build up savings against possible future increases,\u201d the Association concluded.<\/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='cad7596d55a115a2fd4a72a8b93fe60c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No great shakes in the fuel price this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":88632,"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":[5699,5334,5213,979,969,7318,2734,5214],"class_list":["post-88631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-aa","tag-fuel","tag-fuel-price","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-may-fuel-price","tag-melissa-hart","tag-petrol"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["aa","fuel","fuel price","germiston","germiston city news","May fuel price","melissa hart","petrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88631","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}