(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 $3.42 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a regular gallon of gasoline is $3.18, a penny more than last 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. The report also notes that the average price that you can expect for a gallon of unleaded gas here in Beaver County is $3.57. According to a release from AAA East Central and AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report, here are theaverage prices of unleaded self-serve gasoline this week in various Pennsylvania areas:

$3.378      Altoona
$3.570      Beaver
$3.587      Bradford
$3.066      Brookville
$3.500      Butler
$3.050      Clarion
$3.283      DuBois
$3.352      Erie
$3.332      Greensburg
$3.418      Indiana
$3.465      Jeannette
$3.486      Kittanning
$3.279      Latrobe
$3.363      Meadville
$3.524      Mercer
$3.441      New Castle
$3.473      New Kensington
$3.557      Oil City
$3.464      Pittsburgh
$3.393      Sharon
$3.538      Uniontown
$3.599      Warren
$3.497      Washington