(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of AAA East Central)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are five cents lower in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.31 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of gas is $3.03, dropping two cents over the past week. The report states that at this time a year ago, the average price for a gallon of gas in Western Pennsylvania was around $3.46 and the average price that you can expect for an unleaded gallon of gas here in Beaver County is about $3.36. 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 Pennsylvania areas:

$3.280      Altoona
$3.364      Beaver
$3.548      Bradford
$3.101      Brookville
$3.370      Butler
$3.040      Clarion
$3.202      DuBois
$3.081      Erie
$3.238      Greensburg
$3.301      Indiana
$3.402      Jeannette
$3.461      Kittanning
$3.288      Latrobe
$3.184      Meadville
$3.493      Mercer
$3.251      New Castle
$3.386      New Kensington
$3.319      Oil City
$3.364      Pittsburgh
$3.191      Sharon
$3.305      Uniontown
$3.599      Warren
$3.342      Washington