Pennsylvania Gas Prices Rose 16 Cents Last Month

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

April 2, 2012 | 11:54 AM

Pennsylvania’s gas prices keep ticking upward. The average gallon of gas now costs $3.927 in the Keystone State. That’s a tad higher than the national average of $3.925, making Pennsylvania the 17th-highest state in the country. (All of this information came from AAA’s helpful Fuel Gauge Report.)
How do Pennsylvania’s markets compare? Reading is the cheapest place to buy gas, with the average cost at $3.891 a gallon. Erie is the worst market, at $3.898

Source: AAA

City-by-city prices were, on average, 16 cents cheaper a month ago. Check out our chart below for market-by-market comparisons.
Wondering what sets the cost you’re paying at the pump? Check out StateImpact Pennsylvania’s recent report.