(Credit for Photo: Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of AAA East Central)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices in Western Pennsylvania fell 8 cents this week to an average of about $4.52 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report.
The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline decreased 16 cents over the past week to $4.16, marking the second consecutive weekly decline. AAA attributed the drop to crude oil prices remaining below $100 per barrel, though uncertainty remains regarding shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, gasoline demand fell from 9.25 million barrels per day to 8.59 million barrels per day last week. Domestic gasoline supplies increased from 211.6 million barrels to 215 million barrels, while gasoline production averaged 9.4 million barrels per day.
At the close of Wednesday’s trading session, West Texas Intermediate crude oil rose $2.26 to settle at $96.02 per barrel. The EIA reported that U.S. crude oil inventories decreased by 8 million barrels from the previous week to 433.7 million barrels, about 3% below the five-year average for this time of year.
The national average cost of electricity at public EV charging stations remained unchanged this week at 41 cents per kilowatt-hour.
The report states that the average price that you can expect for a gallon of regular unleaded gas here in Beaver County is about $4.77.
According to a release from AAA East Central and AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report, here are the average price of unleaded self-serve gasoline this week in various areas:
$4.384 Altoona
$4.773 Beaver
$4.438 Bradford
$4.333 Brookville
$4.590 Butler
$4.497 Clarion
$4.445 DuBois
$4.433 Erie
$4.335 Greensburg
$4.532 Indiana
$4.343 Jeannette
$4.698 Kittanning
$4.388 Latrobe
$4.491 Meadville
$4.632 Mercer
$4.569 New Castle
$4.628 New Kensington
$4.778 Oil City
$4.678 Pittsburgh
$4.176 Sharon
$4.649 Uniontown
$4.486 Warren
$4.577 Washington