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Auto club AAA said gas prices this summer driving season -- lasting from Memorial Day through Labor Day -- averaged $3.58 a gallon. That's 3 cents more than a year ago, and the third highest behind 2008's average of $3.95 and 2011's average of $3.65. AAA also said it's tough to predict where gas prices go from here. Normally, pump prices decline with the end of summer driving season. But tensions in Syria, Egypt and Libya, as well as the chance of a hurricane in the U.S., make it "impossible to say whether this will be a typical year," said AAA spokesman Avery Ash in an emailed report. Gas prices in September 2012 decreased about 5 cents per gallon, AAA said. In other energy futures trading on Nymex: Wholesale gasoline
dropped 3 cents to $2.86 per gallon. Heating oil rose 1
cent to $3.15 per gallon. Natural gas climbed 9 cents to $3.67
per 1,000 cubic feet.
Pamela Sampson in Bangkok and Pablo Gorondi in Budapest contributed to this report.
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