{"id":590293,"date":"2026-04-08T13:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/590293\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:32:11","slug":"another-increase-at-the-pumps-expected-with-switch-to-summer-blend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/590293\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Increase at the Pumps Expected with Switch to Summer Blend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gas-pump-fuel-price-pricing-adjustment-gasoline-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Another Increase at the Pumps Expected with Switch to Summer Blend\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The pocketbook is likely going to take another hit next week thanks to the annual switchover to summer blend gasoline.<\/p>\n<p>Newfoundland and Labrador will make the switch to the summer blend one week from today. <\/p>\n<p>That changeover typically comes at an extra cost to the consumer says the President of Canadians for Affordable Energy, Dan McTeague.<\/p>\n<p>He says the change is necessary as we head into the warmer months, but the makeup of the blend is more expensive to produce. <\/p>\n<p>He says the blend prevents gas from evaporating so fast in the heat which prevents issues with the vehicle\u2019s emissions. The blend will tack on about 7 cents extra per litre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) The pocketbook is likely going to take another hit next week thanks to the annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-590293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}