{"id":127281,"date":"2022-07-25T15:01:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=127281"},"modified":"2022-07-25T15:01:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:01:37","slug":"fuel-imports-have-to-be-restricted-in-next-12-months-due-to-forex-issues-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/25\/fuel-imports-have-to-be-restricted-in-next-12-months-due-to-forex-issues-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel imports have to be restricted in next 12 months due to forex issues &#8211; Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Minister of Power and Energy Kanchan Wijesekera says that the \u2018QR Code\u2019 system was introduced since the country\u2019s daily fuel demand cannot be fulfilled.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to foreign exchange issues, fuel imports have to be restricted in the next 12 months, he said in a tweet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said that the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) has never distributed fuel daily to every single fuel station and that is practically not possible even when stocks are unlimited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Power and Energy Kanchan Wijesekera says that the \u2018QR Code\u2019 system was introduced since the country\u2019s daily fuel demand cannot be fulfilled.&nbsp; Due to foreign exchange issues, fuel imports have to be restricted in the next 12 months, he said in a tweet.&nbsp; He also said that the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}