Summer is still months away, but summer blend fuel is already available at the pumps.
Summer blend isn’t the latest coffee concoction from Starbucks. It’s a type of fuel blend that’s going to cost customers 25 to 35 cents more per gallon more at the pump, and many customers are bracing themselves for a summer fuel spike.
It’s 53 degrees here in New York city, but drivers at this Mobil gas station are already feeling the heat. Summer blend gasoline was switched into gas pumps nationally in mid-March and over the past 2 weeks gas prices have risen 23 cents to $3.69 a gallon.
A 9-year-old girl who vanished during a family camping trip in upstate New York was “safe and in good health” Monday after a massive two-day search ended with her rescue and the arrest of a person suspected in her abduction, police said.
In the middle of a military base outside Mexico City, an army colonel runs what he calls a kindergarten for dogs. Puppies that one day will become rescue dogs, or sniffer dogs for drugs or explosives, get their basic training here, at Mexico’s Army and Air Force Canine Production Center.