“I literally put gas in in less than five minutes.”That app was GasBuddy, which bargain-hunters typically use to find gas stations with the cheapest prices. GasBuddy collects data from the 70 million drivers who have downloaded it—users can report fuel prices at gas stations across the U.S., as well as in Canada and Australia. “Gas stations are closed, convenience stores are closed—those are things you don’t necessarily think about all the time. “The GasBuddy app is a great resource to find open stations,” he said during a press conference Friday. GasBuddy was founded in 2000 as a website to track fuel prices.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 09, 2017 10:52 UTC