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GasPriceWatch - find cheaper pumps

I really don't drive that much, so when I fill up every month or two, the experience is normally accompanied by equal parts shock and foul language. The strange thing is that the price of gas is always significantly more expensive in the city, and every once in a while, you can happen across a random station that is selling fuel for more than 10 cents a gallon less than everyone else.

It's counter productive to drive all over looking for the cheapest pump, so instead you can use the GasPriceWatch Google Maps mashup to surf pump prices from home. Site visitors report in with updated pump prices, and hopefully there will be a good find along your normal commute route.

Google Maps Mania has a few links to some other maps-related gas tools that you may also be interested in. As for me, I'm sticking to pedaling.

GasPriceWatch
Finding Cheap Gas on Google Maps

Posted by Jason Striegel | Jun 14, 2008 09:01 PM
Cars, Google Maps, Transportation | Permalink | Comments (3)

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Posted by: Dave on June 16, 2008 at 6:30 PM

Funny - posting this map is the exact neighborhood where I grew up. (Brooklyn Center). The cheapest I ever saw gasoline priced there was 9.9 cents per gallon (this was in the mid 60's). My teenage years saw the price at 19.9 to 29.9 cents per gallon.

Oh, for the good old days...

Posted by: John on June 18, 2008 at 10:56 PM

Not in Canada

Seriously, 3.19 and 3.95 in the same city? Come to Canada and you'll notice that the gas stations tend to engage in some serious price fixing. And this isn't some crackpot conspiracy story; it's a been uncovered in Quebec, and it's made national news already. W/e, you yankees still can't complain. Much of your gasoline still comes from Canada (moreso than compared to the Middle East), extracted and refined by American oil companies, and sold back to Canadians at a higher price. Lately in Vancouver, the price has reached around $1.48/L (which is nearly $6.00/gallon)

Posted by: Vanco on June 23, 2008 at 5:47 AM

So, first fire up the computer, stress on prices, then spend some of your life driving 10 miles to save $2 or $3 on gas.

Buy smaller cars, Americans.