(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of AAA East Central)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are 22 cents higher in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.96 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of gasoline is $3.95, and that average increased 24 cents from last week and $1.02 higher than last month. The report states that the average price for a gallon of regular gas in Western Pennsylvania at this time a year ago was around $3.37 and the average price that you can expect for a gallon of regular unleaded gas here in Beaver County is about $3.97. According to a release from AAA East Central and AAA East Cnetral’s Gas Price Report, here are the average prices of unleaded self-serve gasoline this week in various areas:

$3.978      Altoona
$3.973      Beaver
$3.910      Bradford
$3.765      Brookville
$3.974      Butler
$3.955      Clarion
$3.875      DuBois
$3.957      Erie
$3.989      Greensburg
$3.993      Indiana
$3.966      Jeannette
$3.964      Kittanning
$3.988      Latrobe
$3.992      Meadville
$3.980      Mercer
$3.946      New Castle
$3.970      New Kensington
$3.999      Oil City
$3.950      Pittsburgh
$3.979      Sharon
$3.968      Uniontown
$3.988      Warren
$3.970      Washington