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Raleigh. i'm meteorologist mike bettes. now back to you. >> thank you. gas prices are inching closer to record highs with just six weeks until the summer driving season. right now, the national average is $3.84 a gallon, up nearly 30 cents from a month ago. and this is going to make your wallet ache. it is about a dollar more than the average this time last year. the record is $4.11. we hit that in 2008. msnbc's richard lui is in yonkers, new york, where, look at those gas prices behind you, richard. >> reporter: i know. it does hurt. a lot of the customers that are coming by today here, con...

Give you an idea of how much we have paid for gasoline in the past, the national average for a gal ln of regular gas hit $4.11 in the summer of 2008 and today, we are 28 cents away from the all-time high. coming up, imagine acres of farmland in the middle of a city, and skyscrapers and traffic jams and all. >> this is the future of farming, because it's completely different than conventional farming in the sense that we divorce growing a crop from the land. a new kind of farm that may help you eat just a little bit greener next. part of my job is teaching my patients how to take insulin.

Marketing. 7% went to refining crude oil into gasoline. that was 2010. now, look at the average for 2000 to 2009. big difference. look how much less we were paying for crude oil. also check out you the refining cost. yeah. there it is. it was more than double what we pay for refining gas now, and look at the taxes. percentage wise we were actually taxed less today on each gallon of gas than in the last decade. and just to give you an idea of how much we've paid for gasoline in the past -- the national average for a gallon of regular gas hit $4.11 in the summer of 2008. today we are only 28 cen...

The last we have seen is back in 2008. oil is much higher today. gasoline, $4.11 per gallon, national average. we haven't seen started the peak summer driving season. where is your sense on where the gas price go and driving prices? >> my sense is we're in another year of paranoia that we're not going to have enough fuel, there are too many international things happening. in the next few years we're going to peak and then we'll be paying less than we paid on july 4 or what we paid on easter sunday or sing owe did cinco de. >> you're paying more money for the same amount of gas. if these gas pr...

Lose their benefits. and democrats say we'll tax the rich and not the middle class, but that won't produce enough revenue, so that's not going to work either. >> and as we noted, the president had vowed many times he wouldn't extend the bush-era tax cuts making $250,000 or more but in december he did. he said he did so in order to prevent a tax hike on middle class americans. and if the last fight over these tax cuts is any indication, this is going to be a fierce battle. wolf? >> thanks very much. remember july of 2008, presidential candidates were competing a gallon of gas at $4.11 then. b...