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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Check Gas Prices Online: 11 Handy Tools

Crude oil prices keep breaking through record high prices, and it is quickly reflecting itself at the fuel pumps. About the only thing you can do is try to find the cheapest prices, but you can waste as much in gas driving around as you will by finding it, and that’s where gas pricing location sites come in handy. Just log in and see where the best prices are, and save yourself all of that driving around. We’ve covered the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom for you, so start price hunting!

    http://www.fuelmeup.com/

FuelMeUp.com - 82,000 gas stations around the United States, and their prices are updated three times a day to reflect the latest information.

    http://www.altfuelprices.com

AltFuelPrices.com - It isn’t just standard gas that’s getting the price location treatment. This site will help you find E85, electric charging stations, hydrogen fuel and more, all of this along with their current prices.

    http://www.fuelwatch.wa.gov.au/

FuelWatch.wa.gov.au - An unusual site in that it is run by the government of Western Australia and by law, gas stations must inform them by 2:00 PM each day what the next day’s prices will be so that consumers can plan accordingly. Lucky Aussies.

    http://www.gasbuddy.com/

GasBuddy.com - Covering the United States and Canada, you can enter through the main site, or use one of the state specific domain names such as MissouriGasPrices.com. When you go to the state specific pages you can see where the cheapest gas is for the state immediately.

    http://www.gasnearu.com

GasNearU.com - GasNearU gives you a modern look… until you pull up the prices. Enter the zip code you want to know about and it will pull up the prices in a very basic HTML table, but it is missing the station names. You can’t always count on address numbers being visible on a building, so while this site does give you the info you want, it may not be all that helpful in reality.

    http://www.gaspricewatch.com

GasPriceWatch.com - A Google Maps mashup that shows you stations for a given area, color codes the prices by age, and even lets you set up your page with your favorite stations.

    http://www.gasticker.com/

GasTicker.com - A tracking site just for Canada, look prices up by province, or join their email list to have information delivered to you.

      http://www.motortrend.com

    Motor Trend - Motor Trend magazine allows you to look up the gas prices by zip code, or click on the state you want, then county and then finally on the town or city of your choice.

      http://motormouth.com.au/

    MotorMouth.com.au - Gas prices in Australia that you can search by area or sign up for gas price email alerts.

      http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx

    MSN Autos - MSN offers integration with their mapping service to give you maps you can zoom in and out on to locate the stations as well as numbering the map so you can quickly reference where each one is.

      http://www.petrolprices.com/

    PetrolPrices.com - Fuel prices from nearly 10,000 stations all around the United Kingdom.

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