{"id":181266,"date":"2026-05-01T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181266\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:54:07","slug":"gas-prices-in-pittsburgh-area-reach-new-high-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181266\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices in Pittsburgh area reach new high \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Gas prices in the Pittsburgh area have reached a new high amid the ongoing U.S. conflict with Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">According to AAA, gas prices are rising again nationwide after a roughly two-week downturn. The national average is now the highest it\u2019s been since late July 2022, following escalation of the Russia-Ukraine War. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">AAA reports that the average price of regular unleaded fuel in Pittsburgh on Friday was $4.543, compared to $4.378 on Thursday and $3.627 a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the cost of diesel in Pittsburgh sat at $6.070 on Friday. A new record high average of $6.155 was set on April 10, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The highest recorded average price in the Pittsburgh area was $5.054 on June 12, 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The average cost of regular unleaded across Pennsylvania on Friday was $4.417, compared to $5.071 on June 12, 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The national average of regular unleaded reached $4.392 on Friday. June 14, 2022, saw the highest national average at $5.016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Gas prices in the Pittsburgh area have reached a new high amid the ongoing U.S. conflict&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[80970,7678,61887,7680,38293,8098,7681,80971,30324,25874,80969,80968,73,8083,61478,75,74],"class_list":["post-181266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-barrel","tag-fuel","tag-fuel-cost","tag-gas","tag-gas-price","tag-gas-prices","tag-gasoline","tag-gasoline-price","tag-gasoline-prices","tag-oil","tag-oil-cost","tag-oil-price","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-area","tag-pittsburgh-gas-prices","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}