{"id":82155,"date":"2018-10-20T13:49:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T20:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=82155"},"modified":"2018-10-20T13:49:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T20:49:57","slug":"fuel-pricing-formula-not-suitable-for-sri-lanka-ravi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/20\/fuel-pricing-formula-not-suitable-for-sri-lanka-ravi\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel pricing formula not suitable for Sri Lanka \u2013 Ravi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news-author\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/15\/tharindi-pabasara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tharindi Pabasara\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"news-content\">\n<p>The fuel pricing formula is not suitable for Sri Lanka, says the former Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake.<\/p>\n<p>He stated this responding to the queries raised by the media today (19).<br \/>\nAccording to the former Minister Karunanayake, it is sufficient to formulate a method of determining the prices without being counterproductive to the CPC, while providing concessions to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Joint Opposition MP Shehan Semasinghe says that the fuel pricing formula has been introduced to hoax the public.<\/p>\n<p>The fuel pricing formula does not contain any rational basis, says Prof Ranjith Bandara.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ravi&#039;s &#039;montessori&#039; brain doesn&#039;t understand fuel pricing formula - Mangala\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DWJbzSSi1Rw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Tharindi Pabasara\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana The fuel pricing formula is not suitable for Sri Lanka, says the former Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake. He stated this responding to the queries raised by the media today (19). According to the former Minister Karunanayake, it is sufficient to formulate a method of determining the prices without being counterproductive to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82155","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=82155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}