{"id":76260,"date":"2017-12-05T11:48:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T09:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=76260"},"modified":"2017-12-05T16:09:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T14:09:37","slug":"make-sure-fill-massive-fuel-price-increase-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/12\/05\/make-sure-fill-massive-fuel-price-increase-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Make sure you fill up! Massive fuel price increase tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Energy said that petrol will increase with 71 cents per liter and diesel with between 60 and 57 cents per liter.<\/p>\n

The increase is effective from Wednesday 6 December.<\/p>\n

The rise in oil prices and a weak Rand were given as the main reason for the steep increase.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/71817\/petrol-price-set-increase-september\/<\/p>\n

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Consumers must brace themselves for a massive fuel price increase, effective from midnight tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":46096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[4034,9668,9670,21966,9669,9671,9672,9673],"class_list":["post-76260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-department-of-energy","tag-fuel-increase","tag-how-much-is-petrol","tag-middelburg","tag-petrol-price","tag-rand","tag-weak-rand","tag-when-will-petrol-increase"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["department of energy","fuel increase","how much is petrol","middelburg","petrol price","rand","weak rand","when will petrol increase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}