(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of AAA East Central)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are four cents higher in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.36 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of gas is $3.05, going up just 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 $3.50, and the average price that you can expect for a gallon of unleaded gas here in Beaver County is $3.44. 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:

$3.328      Altoona
$3.440      Beaver
$3.548      Bradford
$3.240      Brookville
$3.384      Butler
$2.974      Clarion
$3.212      DuBois
$3.129      Erie
$3.323      Greensburg
$3.329      Indiana
$3.422      Jeannette
$3.490      Kittanning
$3.330      Latrobe
$3.186      Meadville
$3.512      Mercer
$3.326      New Castle
$3.468      New Kensington
$3.489      Oil City
$3.407      Pittsburgh
$3.324      Sharon
$3.397      Uniontown
$3.599      Warren
$3.375      Washington