DAVID GREENE, HOST: NPR business news starts with record prices at the pump.</s>DAVID GREENE, HOST: You may already have a sense of this from your bank statement, but now AAA has confirmed that the average price of a gallon of gasoline hit a record in 2012. The group says the national average for the year was $3.60. That is nine cents higher than the average in 2011, which was the previous record. For 2013, AAA thinks increased domestic oil production will help keep prices lower.
Triple-A has confirmed it: The average price of a gallon of gasoline hit a record last year. The group says the national average for the year was $3.60. That's nine cents higher than the average in 2011, which was the previous record.