It’s Getting Hot Over There

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Gasmap is a service that maps the US petrol price nationwide and maps it in terms of heat. As you can see, California is boiling.

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This does not bode well. But hey, at least the site proves there’s still new niche markets to exploit, even in a recession and inflationary spiral.

Sarcasm aside, it is a very informative site. A comprehensive view of how the rest of the country is doing can only be useful for consumers, if only for the schadenfreude for heartlanders of seeing how much those up-themselves west and east-coasters have to pay.

However I fail to see the utility of being able to see where gas is cheap, if you have to use the expensive gas to go get the cheap gas.

Published by Palau

Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, washed the t-shirt 23 times, threw the t-shirt in the ragbag, now I'm polishing furniture with it.

2 Comments

  • bjacques

    July 8, 2008 at 7:07 am

    It’s not even much of a spread, from $3.75 to $4.45 is only about a 20% difference. Yellow to dark red would be better. Green suggests things are hunky-dory in flyover country.

  • Palau

    July 11, 2008 at 3:48 am

    I have a feeling that that was the intention… dashed clever, these perception management chappies.

    Or is that a little tinfoil-hatty?