{"id":311224,"date":"2026-10-21T20:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311224\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T20:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:18:18","slug":"western-pennsylvania-gas-prices-jump-12-cents-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311224\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Pennsylvania Gas Prices Jump 12 Cents | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gas prices in Western Pennsylvania climbed 12 cents over the past week to an average of $4.698 per gallon, according to AAA East Central on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The average price in Erie is $4.741 per gallon. Meadville\u2019s average is $4.788, while Warren\u2019s is $4.766.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, the average price of regular gasoline fell six cents to $4.29 per gallon, even as crude oil prices rose to around $100 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p>AAA said the national average has remained above $4 per gallon since late July and is now more than a dollar higher than it was at this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>Western Pennsylvania\u2019s average was $4.577 last week and $3.318 a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>AAA said gasoline demand declined last week, while domestic gasoline supplies increased. West Texas Intermediate crude settled at $95.09 per barrel Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gas prices in Western Pennsylvania climbed 12 cents over the past week to an average of $4.698 per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[76798,76797,136,138,137,47785,8098,1419],"class_list":["post-311224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-aaa-east-central","tag-crude-oil","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fuel-costs","tag-gas-prices","tag-western-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311224","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=311224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}