PITTSBURGH — Gas prices in Western Pennsylvania are four cents cheaper this week at $2.672 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report.  

Statewide, gas prices in Pennsylvania are about four cents cheaper this week ($2.65). Refinery utilization across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast region has increased to 93 percent, and inventory has been building. Total gasoline stocks continue to measure above the 61-million-barrel mark for the third week, which is nearly a 3 million surplus year-over-year.

The average price of unleaded self-serve gasoline in Bradford was $2.693; in Brookville, $2.763; in DuBois, $2.657; in Erie, $2.686; and in Warren, $2.803.

Today’s national gas price average of $2.42 is the lowest pump price of the year, a price point not seen since mid-December last year. The average sits at four cents cheaper than last week, 28-cents cheaper than last month and four cents less than last year.