(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of AAA East Central)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are stable in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.73 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is $3.71, and that average jumped nearly 24 cents since last week. The last time the national average was in the $3.70 range was in October of 2023. Gas prices are also going up because of the conflict in Iran and the national average for gas has gone up 73 cents since that conflict began on February 28th. The report states that the average price for a gallon of regular gas in Western Pennsylvania was about $3.41 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 $3.79. 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 areas:  

$3.753      Altoona
$3.787      Beaver
$3.678      Bradford
$3.490      Brookville
$3.741      Butler
$3.751      Clarion
$3.668      DuBois
$3.769      Erie
$3.743      Greensburg
$3.775      Indiana
$3.781      Jeannette
$3.765      Kittanning
$3.735      Latrobe
$3.771      Meadville
$3.809      Mercer
$3.721      New Castle
$3.665      New Kensington
$3.781      Oil City
$3.765      Pittsburgh
$3.639      Sharon
$3.746      Uniontown
$3.799      Warren
$3.728      Washington