{"id":85503,"date":"2018-10-02T09:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T07:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=85503"},"modified":"2018-10-03T09:34:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T07:34:41","slug":"sky-high-fuel-prices-expected-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/10\/02\/sky-high-fuel-prices-expected-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky high fuel prices expected for October"},"content":{"rendered":"

The price for 93 octane will increase with 99 cents and 95 octane with R1.00 pushing the general petrol price up to R17 per litre.
\nThe diesel price will increase with R1.24 per litre leaving fuel prices at its highest yet.<\/p>\n

The increases are said to be a result of general International crude oil prices and a turbulent exchange rate.<\/p>\n

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The filling stations in Middelburg ensured that they have enough supply to fit the demand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Middelburg residents have started filling up their tanks since yesterday in an attempt to avoid long queues, ahead of the midnight increase on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Mr de Ridder from the Kanonkop Engen filling station and Ms Botha from Sasol, told www.mobserver.co.za<\/a> that they took preemptive measures to ensure enough stock for the high demand.<\/p>\n

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Queues can be expected at all South African fuel outlets as another increase in petrol and diesel prices is set for tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":85504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[13861,5397,13855,13858,10010,12898,13856,13859,13862,13860,1685,13863,13857,10333],"class_list":["post-85503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-diesel-hike","tag-engen","tag-fuel-hike","tag-fuel-price-increase","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-october-fuel-hike","tag-october-fuel-price-increase","tag-petrol-and-diesel-prices","tag-petrol-hike","tag-sasol-news","tag-sky-high-fuel-prices","tag-south-african-fuel-prices","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["diesel hike","Engen","fuel hike","fuel price increase","local news","middelburg news","october fuel hike","october fuel price increase","petrol and diesel prices","petrol hike","sasol","sky high fuel prices","south african fuel prices","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85503","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\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}