(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of AAA East Central)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are 50 cents higher in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.74 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline jumped up by 48 cents over the past week to $3.47, which is the highest that has been since the summer of 2024. The current conflict in the Middle East is causing crude oil prices to rise to over $100 per barrel for the first time since the summer of 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine. The report states that the average price for a gallon of regular gas in Western Pennsylvania was around $3.44 at this time a year ago and the average price that you can expect for a gallon of regular unleaded gas here in Beaver County is about $3.76. 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 today in various areas:

$3.752      Altoona
$3.763      Beaver
$3.632      Bradford
$3.460      Brookville
$3.768      Butler
$3.675      Clarion
$3.716      DuBois
$3.751      Erie
$3.789      Greensburg
$3.787      Indiana
$3.799      Jeannette
$3.739      Kittanning
$3.787      Latrobe
$3.786      Meadville
$3.795      Mercer
$3.723      New Castle
$3.736      New Kensington
$3.797      Oil City
$3.743      Pittsburgh
$3.686      Sharon
$3.758      Uniontown
$3.782      Warren
$3.744      Washington