{"id":77,"date":"2022-12-02T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/?p=77"},"modified":"2022-12-02T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T14:56:02","slug":"prices-of-gas-fuel-to-be-reduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/2022\/12\/02\/prices-of-gas-fuel-to-be-reduced\/","title":{"rendered":"Prices of Gas\/Fuel To Be Reduced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There will be reduction in fuel prices as Mr. Amoah explained in an interview held on Joy prime on Wednesday November 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says that fuel prices will be reduced by GHC2.00 a litre based on the forex number that were accumulated over the past one week. Diesel will drop from GHC23 to GHC21. 19.Petrol will also drop GHC17. 99 to about GHC17. 10 or better still GHC17. 00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further explained that the recent inflation in fuel prices is due to the increase in taxes on petroleum products and also the National Petroleum Authority(NPA) should be free from any form of accusation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead the government should be blamed because of the mismanagement of the economy of the country from their part.<br>He plead with the government to minimise the increase in petroleum taxes, saying it may lead to loss of jobs in the petroleum sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently Diesel is being sold at fuel stations for more than GHC23, while Petrol is sold for GHC18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Public Relations Officer of the NPA, Mohammed Abdul-Kudus, also claims that the inflation on fuel prices should be blamed on the cedis depreciation and not taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be reduction in fuel prices as Mr.  Amoah explained in an interview held  on Joy prime on Wednesday November  9. <\/p>\n<p>He says that fuel prices will be reduced by GHC2.00 a litre based on the forex number that were accumulated over the past one week. Diesel will drop from GHC23 to GHC21. 19.Petrol will also drop GHC17. 99 to about GHC17. 10 or better still GHC17. 00.<\/p>\n<p>He further explained  that the recent inflation in fuel prices is due to the increase in taxes on petroleum  products and also the National  Petroleum  Authority(NPA) should be free from any form of accusation. <\/p>\n<p>Instead the government  should be blamed because of the mismanagement of the economy  of the country from their  part.<br \/>\nHe plead with the government  to minimise the increase in petroleum taxes, saying it may lead to loss of jobs in the petroleum  sector.  <\/p>\n<p>Recently Diesel is being sold at fuel stations  for more than GHC23, while Petrol is sold for GHC18. <\/p>\n<p>The Public Relations Officer of the NPA, Mohammed Abdul-Kudus, also claims that the inflation on fuel prices  should be blamed on the cedis depreciation and not  taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}