(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of AAA East Central)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are five cents higher in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.43 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of gas stayed the same at $3.07 compared to the previous week. The report states that at this time a year ago, the average price for a gallon of regular gas in Western Pennsylvania was around $3.37 and the average price that you can expect for a gallon of unleaded gas here in Beaver County is about $3.45. According to a release from AAA East Central and AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report, here are the average prices of unleaded self-serve gasoline this week in various areas:

$3.439      Altoona
$3.449      Beaver
$3.526      Bradford
$3.286      Brookville
$3.400      Butler
$3.425      Clarion
$3.349      DuBois
$3.449      Erie
$3.412      Greensburg
$3.398      Indiana
$3.474      Jeannette
$3.452      Kittanning
$3.462      Latrobe
$3.484      Meadville
$3.428      Mercer
$3.358      New Castle
$3.464      New Kensington
$3.481      Oil City
$3.420      Pittsburgh
$3.308      Sharon
$3.394      Uniontown
$3.587      Warren
$3.429      Washington