(Credit for Photo: Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of AAA East Central)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are four cents lower in Western Pennsylvania this week at $4.140 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at $4.04 after decreasing eight cents over the past week. The price for a barrel of crude oil has also continued to trade below $100 over the past week as regional tensions persist in the Middle East. The report states that the average price for a gallon of regular gas in Western Pennsylvania at this time a year ago was $3.62 and the average price that you can expect for a gallon of regular unleaded gas here in Beaver County is about $4.20. 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 Pennsylvania areas:

$4.184      Altoona
$4.199      Beaver
$4.122      Bradford
$3.859      Brookville
$4.075      Butler
$4.142      Clarion
$4.154      DuBois
$4.229      Erie
$4.117      Greensburg
$4.191      Indiana
$4.177      Jeannette
$4.149      Kittanning
$4.138      Latrobe
$4.249      Meadville
$4.120      Mercer
$4.075      New Castle
$4.136      New Kensington
$4.199      Oil City
$4.159      Pittsburgh
$3.947      Sharon
$4.153      Uniontown
$4.297      Warren
$4.139      Washington