Finding The Cheapest Gas While Traveling
If you’ve been following my blog posts for a while, you’ll know that this site can help you find the cheapest gas in your area just by doing a quick search with you zip code. You’ll get a bunch of gas stations close to your home and you can easily sort them to find the gas station with the lowest prices.
And I know that I use it myself pretty frequently and find it pretty darn accurate, however, it certainly does have it’s limitations. After all, if you’re travelling it’s pretty much useless. Even if you have a cell phone with internet access (like an iPhone), you probably don’t know what zip code you’re in. Usually, you just have to stop at the closest gas station or if you’re at a stop along the Insterstate, you may have three of four choices, but cheaper gas may just be one more exit down and you won’t know until you get there.
And if you’re like me, you hate paying more than you need to for gas.
I just took a trip to Colorado with some friends to do a little whitewater rafting and we never knew if we were paying more for gas than we had to. Sometimes we did okay, and other times we paid more than we needed to.
However, this is now a problem that nobody need suffer with anymore.
You can get real time gas price information on TomTom Go 720/920 and newer models like the 930. I personally use an older model of TomTom’s GPS devices and I can say that they’re excellent GPS units. And this gas price perk is one that has certainly got me thinking about an upgrade.
If you’re coming up on an exit, you’ll be able to not only see where the gas stations are, but you’ll be able to see just how much each gas station is charging for gas.
There is a small annual fee of $15 on this device which I think most people would find to be worth it if they do a lot of driving especially since gas stations along the Interstate can vary in price by 20 cents or more from one gas station to another (especially from one exit to another).
The gas price info is provided by the OPIS (Oil Price Information Service) and IPIX and covers more than 100,000 gas stations across the country.
And the information is updated every four hours so you’re likely to get up to date information most of the time.
You can learn more about the TomTom Go 930 by clicking here.
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The “Cheapest gas in my area” is pumped right to my house.
It’s also the cleanest carbon-based fuel (with only one carbon atom per molecule… Hydrogen is cleaner, with zero carbon atoms per molecule).
Natural gas is even cheaper (per gallon or per energy unit delivered… no matter how you measure) than gasoline.
How come Smart doesn’t make a Natural Gas version of their vehicles?
Chris
27 Jun 08 at 6:53 pm