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The government's new survey has the average price in L.A. at $3.363 a gallon, up about 4 cents from a week earlier. But the numbers may be close to peaking out; an AAA survey shows that pump prices nationwide actually fell over the weekend. And oil remains in the $94-a-barrel neighborhood. The question behind all these figures, of course, is whether consumers will hold back on holiday shopping in order to fill their tanks. That would be bad for the economy, though there's not much sign of that happening so far. (EIA, AP)

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