Cheap Gas
Driving around today, Matt and I came up with a genius idea for a website: a resource for locating cheap gas in your area. Users could enter the prices at gas stations in their area and find out if they could save a few cents per gallon by going down the street. I was all set to register a domain to set the site up when I decided to google “cheap gas” and found out that two sites already beat me to the punch (like three years ago).
Gas Price Watch is the better looking of the two sites, but their information isn’t very complete: they only have data for seven stations in a 5-mile radius of my zip code.
Gas Buddy, through its local site Dallas Gas Prices, is chock-full of information. Their data is also recent: the database is set up to cycle out information that is older than 96 hours. The site also offers information on average prices in Dallas and the US (seems Dallas is averaging about 8.5¢ cheaper than the rest of the nation).
The cheapest gas listed on either site is $1.489. Have you seen anything cheaper?
channel 5 & channel 8 have gas watches too.
Microsoft’s MSN CarPoint has a gas-prices feature, too.