{"id":257,"date":"2008-10-27T16:29:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T16:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/?p=257"},"modified":"2008-10-27T16:29:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T16:29:50","slug":"unleaded-petrol-below-1-a-litre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/10\/27\/unleaded-petrol-below-1-a-litre\/","title":{"rendered":"Unleaded petrol below \u00a31 a litre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The average price of a litre of unleaded petrol has dipped below \u00a31 for the first time in almost a year, figures suggest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The price, calculated from a study of petrol stations across the UK, has hit 98.63p while diesel has fallen to 111p, Experian Catalist said.<\/p>\n<p>The last time a litre of unleaded fell below \u00a31 was on 5 November 2007. It reached a peak of 119.7p on 17 July.<\/p>\n<p>The plunging price of oil has prompted a petrol price war among supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday some supermarkets, including Tesco and Asda, cut pump prices further while Sainsbury&#8217;s and Morrisons also reduced prices.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol company Total follow suit by slashing its own prices.<\/p>\n<p>Industry observers say that supermarkets can afford to sell fuel at a loss to try and lure customers into their stores &#8211; a luxury they argue that independent retailers cannot afford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average price of a litre of unleaded petrol has dipped below \u00a31 for the first time in almost a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}