By SARA FURLONG

s.furlong@bradfordera.com

According to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report, a gallon of gasoline is down 3 cents this week in Western Pennsylvania at $3.601.

Bradford’s average price remains below the regional average, and down 2.1 cents from last week to $3.584 Monday.

After two weeks of increases, Brookville dipped 5.7 cents to $3.501, DuBois shed 8.5 cents to stand at $3.480 and Erie is down 9.4 cents to $3.474. Warren’s price is unchanged at $3.699.

GasBuddy’s statewide price reports show the commonwealth’s prices fell 4.1 cents per gallon during the last week, resting at $3.36 Monday.

That’s 16.2 cents more than last month, but still 35.7 cents less than last year.

Pennsylvania’s stations varied by as much as $1.68 per gallon, with the cheapest selling a gallon of gasoline for $2.27 and the most expensive at $3.95.

Across the country, according to GasBuddy, motorists are paying an average of $3.13 per gallon this week for gasoline and $3.546 for diesel. Both are down this week, gas by 8.2 cents and diesel by 4.8 cents. The national average for gasoline is 7.8 cents more than a month ago, but remains 46.9 cents less than a year ago.

AAA East Central reported the national average per kilowatt hour of electricity at a public EV charging station remained at 34 cents this past week.

‘After oil’s sharp drop over the last couple of weeks — driven by concerns over the impact of U.S. tariffs and OPEC+ restoring production faster than expected – gasoline prices have posted a notable weekly decline, with nearly every state seeing prices fall,’ said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy. ‘While I do expect gas prices to continue trending lower, any abrupt change in the current tariff situation could eventually bring the decline to a halt. For now, the good news is that gas prices typically reach their yearly peak around April 10, so we may have already witnessed ‘peak pain’ at the pump for 2025. As refiners near the

Pump… page A-8 end of seasonal maintenance and supply begins to rise — and with the changeover to summer gasoline nearly complete — it’s increasingly likely that gas prices have already hit their high for the year.”

Even though spring typically sees increasing gas prices, AAA East Central explained that supply, demand and lower crude oil prices are driving the dip.

“After OPEC+ announced it’s increasing oil production next month by more than 400,000 barrels a day — much more than expected — the price of crude oil has been falling,” AAA representatives said in a press release.

According to new data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), gasoline demand decreased from 8.49 barrels per day last week to 8.42. Total domestic gasoline supply decreased from 237.6 million barrels to 236.0. Gasoline production decreased last week, averaging 8.9 million barrels per day.

At the close of Wednesday’s formal trading session, West Texas Intermediate rose $2.77 to settle at $62.35 a barrel. The EIA reports that crude oil inventories increased by 2.6 million barrels from the previous week. At 442.3 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are about 5% below the five-year average for this time of year.

Motorists can find current gas prices nationwide, statewide and countywide at gasprices. aaa.com.