According to GasBuddy. com's Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan, the daily average price of one gallon of gas on the Thanksgiving Day this year was the "highest ever daily average" to have been recorded for the holiday.

Revealing that the national average gas price was $3.43 per gallon, marking a mere 0.4-cent fall in the past week, DeHann said that even though the national average will probably "moderate slightly" by Christmas, there will apparently be no noteworthy rise or fall in the country-wide average in the short term, at least as of now.

Going by the Monday-released statistics pertaining to nation-wide average price of gas, the costs averaged out to $3.42; thereby indicating that while the prices remained the same as those recorded last week, they marked a 12-cent increase over the prices recorded a year back.

Noting that a number of factors were putting upward pressure as well as downward pressure on oil and gasoline, DeHann said that while some fluctuations in gas prices were imminent, there will, overall, be hardly any change in the prices between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

In a recent release, DeHann said that "while Thanksgiving 2012 is now behind us, the stigma of record high gasoline prices is not;" and added: "Thanksgiving Day 2012 featured the highest ever daily average for the holiday, beating out 2011 by over 10-cents per gallon."