AAA says gasoline prices in the Pittsburgh area are down seven cents compared to last week.<\/p>\n
The average of gas in Western PA is $4.63 a gallon. While down from $4.70 last week, the current price of gas is over $1.20 more expensive a gallon compared to this time last year.<\/p>\n
And, gas prices set a record for the September, 50 cents higher compared to the record of $3.83 set in 2023.<\/p>\n
Crude oil is back to around $90 a barrel, but the motor club says overall gasoline prices are the highest they’ve ever been for this time of year. <\/p>\n
In neighboring Ohio, the state has suspended its gas tax for 90 days, bringing prices to among the lowest in the country.<\/p>\n
Gas is currently selling, on average, for $3.88 a gallon in Ohio.<\/p>\n
When in effect, Ohio\u2019s gas tax adds 38.5 cents a gallon.<\/p>\n
Gas prices are not expected to go town until the conflict in Iran and with the Strait of Hormuz are resolved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AAA says gasoline prices in the Pittsburgh area are down seven cents compared to last week. The average…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8102,7680,8098,7681,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-300388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-aaa","tag-gas","tag-gas-prices","tag-gasoline","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300388","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=300388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}