{"id":238974,"date":"2022-10-04T09:58:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T07:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/reprieve-at-petrol-pumps\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T07:58:24","slug":"reprieve-at-petrol-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/reprieve-at-petrol-pumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprieve at petrol pumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202210\/petrolpumphand.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Motorists will breathe a sigh of relief at the pumps this week as the price of all grades of petrol is set to come down by between 89 cents and R1.02 a litre.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the third consecutive month of decreases following increases experienced this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) on Monday announced that the price of petrol (both 93 ULP &amp; LRP) will come down by 89 cents a litre while the price of petrol (both 95 ULP &amp; LRP) will come down by R1.02 cents a litre.<\/p>\n<p>The adjustment means that a litre of 95 ULP, which currently costs 23.38 in Gauteng, will now cost R22.36 as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the price of diesel (0.05% sulphur) will increase by 10 cents a litre while the price of diesel (0.005% sulphur) will go up by 15 cents a litre.<\/p>\n<p>The wholesale price of illuminating paraffin will decrease by 61 cents per litre.<\/p>\n<p>The price of illuminating paraffin (SMNRP) will come down by 82 cents, while the Maximum Retail Price for LPGAS will increase by 19 cents per kilogram.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The DMRE said average Brent crude oil prices decresed from $94 per barrel to $89.79 per barrel during the period under review. &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists will breathe a sigh of relief at the pumps this week as the price of all grades of petrol is set to come down by between 89 cents and R1.02 a litre. This marks the third consecutive month of decreases following increases experienced this year. The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238975,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-238974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/reprieve-at-petrol-pumps.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238974","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}