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Petrol triples share in...
Financial Express Lucknow
|February 16, 2026
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CONSUMPTION HAS CLIMBED to more than 31 million tonne, driven by sustained policy push toward clean cooking fuel access across rural and semi-urban India.
The flip side of this rise is the collapse of superior kerosene oil (SKO). Once the mainstay of India’s refining output -- with around 11% share in 2001 and ranking as high as second a few years earlier -- kerosene has now shrunk to just about 0.2% of total demand. Consumption has fallen to negligible levels, effectively marking the end of an era where kerosene defined household energy use.
Industrial fuel use has also been reconfigured
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