(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 $3.12 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gas has gone up six cents over the past week to $2.88 as winter weather has affected most of the country. The report states that at this time a year ago the average price for a gallon of gas in Western Pennsylvania was around $3.52 and the average price that you can expect for a gallon of unleaded gas here in Beaver County is about $3.15. 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:

$3.156      Altoona
$3.151      Beaver
$3.275      Bradford
$2.968      Brookville
$3.118      Butler
$3.095      Clarion
$3.159      DuBois
$3.066      Erie
$3.093      Greensburg
$3.096      Indiana
$3.099      Jeannette
$3.263      Kittanning
$3.095      Latrobe
$3.147      Meadville
$3.118      Mercer
$2.968      New Castle
$3.126      New Kensington
$3.159      Oil City
$3.102      Pittsburgh
$2.928      Sharon
$3.093      Uniontown
$3.422      Warren
$3.112      Washington