Turmoil in the middle east has helped push gas prices even higher and experts predict drivers could see record high prices between four to five dollars a gallon by the summer.

According to AAA, Florida gas prices are up about thirty-five cents since November and in Orlando prices have risen twenty cents in the past month and seem to be going up each week.

Analysts say drivers could soon have to pay $4.25 a gallon by April well before the peak driving season.

The highest recorded average price Florida drivers paid was $4.07 a gallon in 2008.

Prices usually peak by spring and summer when many families hit the road for vacations but when that times comes experts say the prices at the pump now may seem like a deal.

John Bernal still remembers when he could get a gallon of gas for about a quarter. Decades later the price at the pump is nearly 15 times that.

"You gotta roll with the punches. That's all," Bernal said Tuesday.

The high prices have put the breaks on Bernal's traveling plans for the summer.

"Absolutely it has. That's why you need to buy a car that gets twenty-nine miles to the gallon," Bernal said.

The news of higher prices at the pump has many drivers rethinking their future vacation plans, but it won't stop Jim Dominick from filling up his diesel truck to drive across the country.

Dominick and his wife travel the country pulling horses along with them to horse shows.

"I'm not going to let it stop me. I'm retired it's my time to have fun now," Dominick said.