A jump in gas prices is on the horizon and just in time for Thanksgiving long weekend travel.

Violent storms south of the border and rising tensions in the Middle East are both contributing to changes at the pump thousands of miles away.

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Economics experts tell Global News that a jump in gas prices around the long weekend is quite normal, but the future is hard to predict.

And as Global’s Moosa Imran explains in the video above, consumers are paying the price for a volatile market.