Gas prices may be down in recent months, but they are still at record highs for December — and that doesn’t bode well for what you will pay next year. The people at GasBuddy.com, which operates all those gas price-tracking web sites, say prices typically rise 93 cents a gallon from year-end lows to peak prices the following year. More on that from WFIR’s Evan Jones.

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