Comments on: "Every night MSN Autos analyzes prices from over 90,000 gas stations across the nation to show you gas prices in your neighborhood."

"Every night MSN Autos analyzes prices from over 90,000 gas stations across the nation to show you gas prices in your neighborhood."

celerystick — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:38:03 -0800

"Every night MSN Autos analyzes prices from over 90,000 gas stations across the nation to show you gas prices in your neighborhood ....Don't eally know if this is as up to date as it says it is. Put in a zip code you know and see what you think. After loading a page you have to scroll down to the bottom to see the local gas station data. A timely link for U.S. readers.

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:53:39 -0800

Before the browser could finish displaying the page, I got Gas price data for your ZIP Code is currently unavailable. Please enter another ZIP Code. WTF?

By: lampshade

lampshade — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:57:00 -0800

Got the same thing, but re-entered the zip and it worked.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:00:22 -0800

Interesting, the current rate of increases is actually breaking these tools. Usually a two-day old price is a bit useful, but now it's worthless.

By: phrits

phrits — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:11:32 -0800

I can tell you it's out of date, at least in places. All the ones in my zip code (Charlotte, NC) are showing $0.40 or so less than they were charging last night, and it's gone up another $0.50 since then. I paid $3.50/gallon this morning because I didn't have 2 hours to wait last night.

By: eas98

eas98 — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:14:19 -0800

It is completely out of date.

By: kcm

kcm — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:17:27 -0800

awesome, Firefox and Safari are both persona non grata. IE for OS X is not really an option. I'm tired of hiding my UserAgent, I just want to come out of the closet and BE ME.

By: ernie

ernie — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:22:09 -0800

"Every night MSN Autos analyzes prices from over 90,000 gas stations" for non-Mac users.

By: Remy

Remy — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:23:03 -0800

I've been using GasBuddy for city-by-city data, provided by users. And it works on a Mac.

By: mullingitover

mullingitover — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:39:36 -0800

I've been tapping the GasBuddy site PortlandGasPrices for some time. Since I live in Portland, it's relevant, but since I ride a bike and use public transportation, it's strictly for my perverse amusement.

By: ilsa

ilsa — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:46:57 -0800

Ya know, maybe this is the week I ditch the Macintosh.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:54:35 -0800

My zip's got prices from before last night. I awoke this morning to discover gas had jumped 25 cents/gallon at the closest corner market, and as much as 75 cents a couple of miles away.

By: Mick

Mick — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:58:44 -0800

works in firefox on PC, stupid Microsoft

By: punishinglemur

punishinglemur — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:00:03 -0800

The GasBuddy sites, or at least my local one, seem to be much more up to date.

By: sotonohito

sotonohito — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:08:53 -0800

I prefer GasPriceWatch.com. Its vaguely wiki, but with a trust system built in. Also, it lists many more gas stations (for my area anyway) than the MSN site does.

By: grateful

grateful — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:29:56 -0800

Out of date. I saw 3.33 for premium in the Maryland suburbs of DC

By: the biscuit man

the biscuit man — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:31:43 -0800

You know what makes their lack of Safari support really crappy? If you have the Debug menu enabled, select "Windows MSIE 6.0" as your user agent. The page will load fine. Assholes.

By: bikergirl

bikergirl — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:59:08 -0800

This is close to being up to date in my neighborhood. I got gas this morning at the one they said was $2.88 and it was only $.05 off. $10 to fill the tank for a week. :)

By: aldus_manutius

aldus_manutius — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:28:54 -0800

Opera on OS X works if you tell it to pretend it's IE...and as everyone else has indicated, it's WAY out of date...but then we saw prices change in one afternoon and again overnight (last night)...can't wait to see what they are this afternoon. Shades of Germany in the Depression,when the price of a cup of coffee changed during the time you drank it...

By: weston

weston — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:49:37 -0800

It seems to be 4-5 days behind. The prices look accurate for Saturday Night/Monday morning, but definitely a $.30 lag here in Orem UT.

By: sexyrobot

sexyrobot — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:00:35 -0800

O. M. G!... a MICROSOFT product isn't working? well i guess there's a first time for everything, huh? pull it together, people.