(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of AAA East Central)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are ten cents higher in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.47 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. As summer comes to a close, $3.16 is the national average for a gallon of gas in the United States, going up three cents over the past week. The report states that at this time a year ago, the average price for a gallon of gas in Western Pennsylvania was $3.70. The report also notes that the average price that you can expect for a gallon of unleaded gas here in Beaver County is around $3.56. 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:

$3.391      Altoona
$3.535      Beaver
$3.576      Bradford
$3.119      Brookville
$3.509      Butler
$3.077      Clarion
$3.275      DuBois
$3.521      Erie
$3.499      Greensburg
$3.565      Indiana
$3.517      Jeannette
$3.492      Kittanning
$3.361      Latrobe
$3.577      Meadville
$3.550      Mercer
$3.505      New Castle
$3.557      New Kensington
$3.559      Oil City
$3.508      Pittsburgh
$3.426      Sharon
$3.505      Uniontown
$3.596      Warren
$3.563      Washington