{"id":16956,"date":"2012-12-01T03:45:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T01:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/petrol-price-to-drop\/"},"modified":"2012-12-01T03:45:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T01:45:21","slug":"petrol-price-to-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/petrol-price-to-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price to drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<p>The retail price of all grades of petrol will drop by nine cents a litre from next Wednesday, the Department of Energy announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel with 0.05% sulphur will decrease by 5 c\/l, while diesel with 0.005% sulphur will drop by 6 c\/l.<\/p>\n<p>The wholesale price of illuminating paraffin will see a decrease of 4 c\/l, and the Single Maximum National Retail Price (SMNRP) for illuminating paraffin will go down 5 c\/l.<\/p>\n<p>The Maximum Retail Price for LPGas will decrease by 35 c\/kg.<\/p>\n<p>The department said the decreases mainly emanated from a decrease in the price differentials between crude oil and refined petroleum products, lower international product prices and a weaker rand\/dollar exchange rate.<\/p>\n<p>During the current fuel price review period, the international product prices of petrol, diesel and illuminating paraffin, on average, decreased by 38.6 c\/l, 37.2 c\/l and 29.0 c\/l respectively.<\/p>\n<p>This is also due to the average Rand\/ dollar exchange rate which deteriorated by almost 14.0 South African cents during the current fuel price review. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The retail price of all grades of petrol will drop by nine cents a litre from next Wednesday, the Department of Energy announced on Friday. Diesel with 0.05% sulphur will decrease by 5 c\/l, while diesel with 0.005% sulphur will drop by 6 c\/l. The wholesale price of illuminating paraffin will see a decrease of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-16956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}