{"id":92800,"date":"2015-06-29T09:45:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T07:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=92800"},"modified":"2015-06-29T09:54:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T07:54:55","slug":"petrol-price-hike-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/29\/petrol-price-hike-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price hike confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Energy Department has announced another fuel hike to take effect from Wednesday (July 1).<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year motorists have seen an\u00a0increase of more than R4,70 for all grades of petrol.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>From Wednesday 93 octane petrol will increase by 44 cents a litre while 95 octane goes up by 41 cents.<\/p>\n<p>Both grades of diesel will increase by four cents a litre, with\u00a0Liquefied petroleum gas\u00a0going up by 56 cents.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It is reported that the reason behind the Energy Department\u2019s decision to increase the petrol price has been driven by the weakening of the Rand against the US Dollar.<\/p>\n<p>Related article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/92625\/petrol-price-hike-expected-for-next-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fuel prices to continue increasing next month \u2013 says AA<\/a><\/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='c1cda6bc4f20f7ddc816a30d1397957b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol will cost 44 cents more per litre from Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":72087,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,5215],"class_list":["post-92800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-petrol-price"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","petrol price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92800","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=92800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}