(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of AAA East Central)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are 11 cents higher in Western Pennsylvania this week at $3.54 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. As fall begins, the national average is $3.19 for a gallon of regular gasoline. The report states that at this time a year ago, the average price for a gallon a gas in Western Pennsylvania was around $3.58. The report also notes that the average price that you can expect for a gallon of unleaded gas here in Beaver County is about $3.70. 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 areas:

$3.468      Altoona
$3.699      Beaver
$3.573      Bradford
$3.136      Brookville
$3.637      Butler
$3.093      Clarion
$3.420      DuBois
$3.544      Erie
$3.594      Greensburg
$3.666      Indiana
$3.681      Jeannette
$3.579      Kittanning
$3.452      Latrobe
$3.581      Meadville
$3.546      Mercer
$3.535      New Castle
$3.618      New Kensington
$3.599      Oil City
$3.612      Pittsburgh
$3.499      Sharon
$3.649      Uniontown
$3.599      Warren
$3.634      Washington