There’s good news and there’s bad news if a gas station fill-up is in your near future.<\/p>\n
The good: nationwide, gas prices are averaging their lowest levels in five years.<\/p>\n
The bad: Pennsylvania ranks among the ten most expensive gasoline markets in the U.S.<\/p>\n
According to AAA, the average price for a gallon of regular gas in the Lehigh Valley (the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton metro area) has slipped to just under $3.00, coming in at $2.99. That’s lower than Pennsylvania’s overall average of $3.05.<\/p>\n
A month ago, Lehigh Valley drivers were paying, on average, $3.18 a gallon. The statewide average during that same period was $3.22.<\/p>\n
Just outside the Lehigh Valley, Carbon and Monroe counties currently have some of the cheapest gas in the state, at about $2.94 and $2.91 a gallon, respectively.<\/p>\n
If we zoom out and look at the entire country, the national average for a gallon of unleaded gasoline fell 2.4 cents over the past week to $2.83. According to AAA, gas prices have not sunk that low since December of 2020.<\/p>\n
“Cheaper crude oil prices and increases in supply are contributing to the decrease in gasoline prices,” AAA said, in a news release. “Overall, 2025 has been a stable year for the national average with few fluctuations and no sharp spikes. Today\u2019s national average is 17.1 cents less than a month ago and 19.2 cents less than a year ago.”<\/p>\n
Still, Pennsylvania currently ranks ninth among the most expensive states to fuel-up.<\/p>\n
Here’s the list, according to AAA, including the statewide average for each:<\/p>\n
Hawaii ($4.43)<\/p>\n
California ($4.27)<\/p>\n
Washington ($3.88)<\/p>\n
Alaska ($3.56)<\/p>\n
Oregon ($3.45)<\/p>\n
Nevada ($3.39)<\/p>\n
District of Columbia ($3.17)<\/p>\n
Vermont ($3.06)<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania ($3.05) (tie) New York ($3.05)<\/p>\n
Oklahoma currently offers the cheapest gas in the country, at $2.25 a gallon, on average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s good news and there’s bad news if a gas station fill-up is in your near future. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38296,38295,38293,38294,157,28,30,29,66],"class_list":["post-73981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-cheapest-gas","tag-crude-oil-prices","tag-gas-price","tag-gasoline-and-diesel-usage-and-pricing","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73981","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=73981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}