(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of AAA East Central)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are six cents lower in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.22 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for gas dropped to $2.85 decreasing five cents over the past week, and this marks the cheapest that gas has been since December of 2020. The report states that at this time a year ago, the average price for a gallon of gas in Western Pennsylvania was around $3.38 and the average price that you can expect for a gallon of unleaded gas here in Beaver County is about $3.23. 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:

$3.158      Altoona
$3.234      Beaver
$3.433      Bradford
$3.099      Brookville
$3.198      Butler
$3.084      Clarion
$3.042      DuBois
$3.208      Erie
$3.160      Greensburg
$3.187      Indiana
$3.219      Jeannette
$3.321      Kittanning
$3.178      Latrobe
$3.176      Meadville
$3.378      Mercer
$3.106      New Castle
$3.185      New Kensington
$3.213      Oil City
$3.209      Pittsburgh
$3.219      Sharon
$3.176      Uniontown
$3.551      Warren
$3.204      Washington