Sidetracked by gas prices
Saturday, June 28th, 2008 As I was watching Courtney Tuttle’s latest video guide about choosing a profitable blog topic I got a little sidetracked by the price of gas. He mentioned the keyword tool and I decided to test it out. Again. I can personally vouch for the tools effectiveness if used properly. So anyhow I tried a few different topics and one thing led to another and I ended up at a site called Gas Buddy.
If you’ve never heard of the site before you should check it out. It’s a big database of gas stations across the United States and their prices. Basically it is designed to help you find cheap affordable gas and get an idea of how much you’ll be paying in a particular area. You can actually search by zip code and narrow it right down to where you are. In today’s economy when fuel prices are through the roof spending a few extra minutes planning where you’ll buy your gas isn’t a bad idea.
One other neat feature is the gas price temperature map. This allows you to see at a glance just how much you’re being ripped off compared to the rest of the country.
Just click the image above and it will take you to the live version of the map. Then put in your zipcode and have a look around at the prices in your area. It can differ as much as a dollar just by going one or two towns over. Sometimes the extra half-mile drive is worth it. Sometimes it’s not. There’s also a heat map for Canada
Now it’s time to go back and actually watch that video Court put so much effort into. Unless I get sidetracked again.