Fuelfrog: track gas mileage and cost

by Todd Ritter May 12th 2008

Fuelfrog is a web service for tracking your gas mileage and cost-per-gallon trends which can provide insight into your empty wallet. By adding simple information each time you fill up your car, Fuelfrog will chart that data to provide a gas history.

Fuelfrog accepts updates via its website, but it also can accept data via Twitter direct message. Simply add your Twitter account to your Fuelfrog profile and Twitter the miles since your last fill up, price per gallon, and number of gallons purchased to @fuelfrog.

Someday you'll be able to log in to Fuelfrog and tell your children, "See, back in my day I only paid $4.00 for a gallon of gas!"

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Tags: environment, gas, gasoline, green, mileage

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Peter said 3:44PM on 5-12-2008

Or you could use any spreadsheet application.
Everything doesn't need to be on the web and "Twitterified".

BrianM said 4:18PM on 5-12-2008

Of course FuelEconomy.Gov has been offering the same for at least the past 4 years (as long as I've been doing it). It's nice that this data is then viewable (if you choose) by anyone looking at that make/model of vehicle.

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/2008car1tablef.jsp?id=16718

And twitter? I'm too old to care about that (at 34)

Tom said 10:22PM on 5-13-2008

Um, a few things:
FuelEconomy.gov isn't going to give the same mileage that YOU get out of YOUR daily commute. YOUR CITY may make it worse, or better. Plus, the way you drive counts, as well as the condition of your car (tune ups improve mileage!). So trying to figure out your exact MPG by looking at what the government determined a while back on a perfect car is stupid.

kingkool68 said 10:32PM on 5-12-2008

There is also a Windows Mobile app for the service if you don't want to remember the order you have to tweet it in -> http://tinyurl.com/58apkc

csiknor said 5:17AM on 5-13-2008

You should also try http://www.spritmonitor.de/en/ (altough it's a german website it spokes english too). It offers a bit more: you can track any cost regarding to your car. Moreover you can schedule events in the future and set alarms for those if you want it. Finally you can measure other cars' fueling in it's huge database.

Tom said 10:23PM on 5-13-2008

I so rarely blog about anything that this is an occasion. I actually tried FuelFrog, and have written an in depth scathing flame.
http://tomsucks.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/fuelfrog-lol/

Heh.

Tom said 10:57PM on 5-13-2008

A LifeHacker commenter suggested a near perfect alternative:
http://mymilemarker.com/

It uses the odometer instead of your tripometer, BUT it also uses direct messages on twitter instead of @replies (so it's not public), and it uses the MGP order instead of MPG, whereas MPG is much more memorable.

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