FYI: Gas Price app

[BigTee]

Just thought I'd share an awesome FREE app I found for both Android and iPhones.

The GasBuddy app finds the cheapest gas around you by distance or by price.

Of course we know New Braunfels has cheap gas now that Buc-ee's moved in but I've recently found cheap gas at the HEB @ Austin Hwy/Harry Wurzbach thanks to this app.

The two links above direct you to respective app stores.

Enjoy!

[txdeerhuntin1]

Thanks! And hopefully they keep dropping the closer we get to election time.....

[Secret Encounters]

9O and akerman has really cheap gas .. Loves or petro $3.17

[CrimsonValkyrie]

Just heard there is a gas station on culebra & el centro that gas at 2.96 a gallon.

[Ms. Milani]

Just be careful because I used the gas station that had the cheapest gas and it screwed up my vehicle. I took it to the mechanic and he told me that the gas I was buying was dirty and was clogging something in my car. He told us to get gas from a Chevron with that extra crap to clean it out.

[BigTee]

Originally Posted by Malaya

Just be careful because I used the gas station that had the cheapest gas and it screwed up my vehicle. I took it to the mechanic and he told me that the gas I was buying was dirty and was clogging something in my car. He told us to get gas from a Chevron with that extra crap to clean it out.

Yup I had a professor in college that was hired to do some investigative work on how a couple of mom n pop gas stations could end up selling contaminated gas. Turns out those cheap places don't have the same standards for their holding tanks. Water and other contaminates can get into the fuel and mess up your engine easily.

That's why i've stuck with getting fuel at places that are reputable not the extra cheap places with the fuel pumps still from the 1980s

[oralee]

New Braunfels, for 3 weeks, has been underselling SA by 20 cents a gal. Paid 2.97 this past Saturday...Been as low as 2.93.
Walmart, HEB, and Buckee's

[40F Cougar]

Where have you been? Gas Buddy been around for a long time. I love that app. There is also an app tells you where the nearest bathroom is when traveling LOL it's called sit or squat lol for us ladies!

[Maxx]

Big Tee - you're right on with the holding tank standards. I've seen a tanker go from a Chevron, to a Sac-n-Pac Valero to an independent (same truck and driver) all in the same day filling tanks. The gas comes from a wholesale distributor and all has the same qualities. If the tank at the location is dirty then you'll pick up gunk from their tank. If you notice, not too many tanker trucks anymore with the big retailer logos on them like Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and the like.

[40F Cougar]

Originally Posted by Maxx

Big Tee - you're right on with the holding tank standards. I've seen a tanker go from a Chevron, to a Sac-n-Pac Valero to an independent (same truck and driver) all in the same day filling tanks. The gas comes from a wholesale distributor and all has the same qualities. If the tank at the location is dirty then you'll pick up gunk from their tank. If you notice, not too many tanker trucks anymore with the big retailer logos on them like Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and the like.

Maxx you are entirely right we just need to stop buying gas from the big boys Mobil, Texaco and the like, then they will lower gas prices and I heard someone was trying to get everyone to stay home for a certain number of days, I think it was a week, no one buy gas! Don't know if any of that would help, but, it might?

[BigTee]

Originally Posted by PrincessLeeGFE

Maxx you are entirely right we just need to stop buying gas from the big boys Mobil, Texaco and the like, then they will lower gas prices and I heard someone was trying to get everyone to stay home for a certain number of days, I think it was a week, no one buy gas! Don't know if any of that would help, but, it might?

I've know about gasbuddy for a while, I haven't been hiding under a rock or anything. Just wanted to let other people know about the app and how handy it is.

I don't think that would work very well. The small mom-n-pop stations get their gas from the big boys too, they just buy more of it so they can sell more of it at a cheaper price. Just cancels out. Although staying home and not buying gas one day out of the week sounds like an excellent idea, I don't think many people would get the memo or listen and do what they wanted.