Box Score: $4.51

That's the average price unleaded gas will need to hit on Long Island to set the all-time, inflation-adjusted, no-doubt-about-it record for pump pain.

The current record in non-inflation adjusted dollars for Nassau and Suffolk is $4.35, set in July 2008. The average Friday was $4.12, up $1.10 over the past year and 34 cents in a month. Experts say that in addition to nearing a record, we are also approaching the point at which sticker shock at the station changes consumer behavior.