Lackawanna County<\/a>.<\/p>\nJosh Feldman is traveling with his family from South Florida to Cooperstown, New York.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started at like $3.50 in South Florida, $3.60, so it’s just been going up every state we hit\u201d, says Feldman.<\/p>\n
The prices in PA reached higher than prices in any other state they passed through on their way to New York state.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lowest I think we’ve seen is like $4.40, $4.15,\u201d he remarks.<\/p>\n
Traveling from Colorado, Doug Slais is also heading to Cooperstown with his family.<\/p>\n
They chose to fly into Philadelphia and then drive up to New York state.<\/p>\n
He says he hasn’t noticed gas prices impacting him as he headed north on Interstate 81.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything costs more, and I’m kind of used to that, and thankfully it’s not a big impact on our lives right now,\u201d Slais explains.<\/p>\n
According to AAA, the average price for a gallon of gas in PA right now is $4.22, up a dollar from last year when it was $3.22.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just topped off the tank in PA; it was around $4.09 in Saint Clair,\u201d says Angela Runciman, a native of Pottsville.<\/p>\n
She was heading to Binghamton, New York, when she stopped at the Greenfield Township rest stop.<\/p>\n
\u201cDriving up, there’s a variety of different prices ranging between $4.09, $4.29, and so forth,\u201d she comments.<\/p>\n
Runciman says she has definitely been feeling the impact of the rising prices.<\/p>\n
She notes that \u201cyou do notice it in the wallet.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cost in Pennsylvania remains at $4.22, 16 cents higher than the national average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gas prices in Pennsylvania remain 16 cents higher than the national average of $4.06, putting many travelers in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-249986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249986","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=249986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}