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Simple but powerful Drivepricing helps calculate gas costs
Sometimes the best web services are the simplest ones. Drivepricing lets you calculate the cost of gas for your road trip.With gas prices so high its nice to be able to know how much to put in the piggy bank to save up for the trips you have coming up this summer.
So when you're going to visit grandma in Albany from Philly, you can drop your gas mileage in there and get an estimated cost of what you're going to have to beg her for so you can get home.
Even if you don't know your gas mileage they have a link to FuelEconomy.gov for you. Drop your zipcode in there, start address, end address, the type of gas you use (which is a great feature) and whether its a round trip or not.
After a few seconds of loading, booya there you have it. Price per gallon and cost for trip.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Peter said 1:09PM on 7-09-2008
Wow, now we need a whole web service to do simple math for us.
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infinity said 2:03PM on 7-09-2008
It does more then simple math, it does the mapping and determines the distance and estimated price per gallon for you
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Bill Minton said 4:15PM on 7-09-2008
A buddy just pointed me to this one:
http://www.fuelcostcalculator.com/TripGasprice.aspx
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Alek Davis said 6:45PM on 7-09-2008
DrivePricing does not seem to be working. I get the "Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server" error.
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iconostasis said 11:04PM on 7-09-2008
checkout this one too http://drivingcost.appspot.com which does the fuel efficiency look up for you and has Canadian cities too
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Firtch said 12:35PM on 7-10-2008
There's gotta be a way to integrate this directly into google maps. GOTTA
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Sean Neden said 2:37PM on 7-10-2008
Hey everyone, the site is back up now, had some intial problems with the host. Please keep the feedback coming, good and bad Ill take it all.
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