{"id":1106442,"date":"2022-06-01T12:04:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/01\/price-of-petrol-to-go-up-by-4-percent-this-week\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:04:54","slug":"price-of-petrol-to-go-up-by-4-percent-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/01\/price-of-petrol-to-go-up-by-4-percent-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Price of petrol to go up by 4 percent this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n                                                   Accra, June, 1, GNA- Oil Marketing Companies are likely to sell a litre of petrol for about GHS 12.00 starting today, Wednesday June 1, 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1.21490408.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"kMediaObject\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The increase at the pumps represent a surge from five to nine per cent, compared to the last pricing window, which ended on May 31, 2022.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Diesel and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) prices will, however, remain stable, a projection by the Institute for Energy Security (IES) indicates.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The IES said the 5.49 and 4.13 percentage drops in the prices of petrol and LPG respectively on the international market may not necessarily lead to a reduction at local retail outlets as most marketers would look to maintain their prices to offset the losses from the depreciation of the Cedi.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">\u201cOn the back of the Cedi\u2019s depreciation and the 11.05 per cent jump in the price of Gasoline on the international fuel market, Gasoline in Ghana is set to sell above Gh\u00a210.00 per litre, which translates into Gh\u00a245 per gallon,\u201d it said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Currently, a litre of petrol and diesel are selling at GHS 9.85 and GHS 11.95 respectively at the pumps.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accra, June, 1, GNA- Oil Marketing Companies are likely to sell a litre of petrol for about GHS 12.00 starting today, Wednesday June 1, 2022. The increase at the pumps represent a surge from five to nine per cent, compared to the last pricing window, which ended on May 31, 2022. Diesel and Liquefied Petroleum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1106444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[982,6161,169,602],"class_list":["post-1106442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-percent","tag-petrol","tag-price","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}