{"id":1931,"date":"2014-06-29T17:54:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T21:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2014-07-08T23:09:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T03:09:21","slug":"find-cheapest-gas-prices-along-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/29\/find-cheapest-gas-prices-along-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Find the Cheapest Gas Prices Along Your Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This post will be a little different than most of the deals that I post about, but hopefully it&rsquo;ll still be useful given the upcoming 4th of July Holiday.&nbsp; Millions of people will be heading out on the roads this week, and no one is complaining that gas prices are too low.&nbsp; So I&rsquo;ve put together a couple tips for finding the cheapest gas prices along your drive, wherever you&rsquo;re headed.<\/p>\n<p>There are 2 main tools that I typically use to find the cheapest gas prices &ndash; the <strong>GasBuddy App<\/strong> and the <strong>GasBuddy Heat Map<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4>GasBuddy App<\/h4>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gasbuddy.com\/GasBuddyMobileApps.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">GasBuddy App<\/a> is available for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry, and it allows you to search for the cheapest gas prices near you, or near a specific city\/zip code that you type in.&nbsp; I use it pretty much anytime I need to gas up &ndash; since I&rsquo;ve used the app for a while, I pretty much know off the top of my head which stations in my hometown typically have the lowest prices.<\/p>\n<p>But if I&rsquo;m on a different side of town than normal, or if I&rsquo;m traveling in a different city, the app is extremely valuable.&nbsp; It can display either a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">list<\/span> or a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">map<\/span> of prices nearby:<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GasBuddy-App-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GasBuddy-App-1.png\" alt=\"cheapest gas prices\" width=\"251\" height=\"438\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GasBuddy-App-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1936\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GasBuddy-App-2.png\" alt=\"cheapest gas prices\" width=\"252\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GasBuddy-App-2.png 640w, https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GasBuddy-App-2-563x1000.png 563w, https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GasBuddy-App-2-576x1024.png 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><br>\n<!--more-->GasBuddy Heat Map<\/h4>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gasbuddy.com\/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">GasBuddy Heat Map<\/a> allows you to get a quick color-coded view of the average gas prices in every county.&nbsp; As you would expect, counties shaded in green have the best prices, while areas shaded in orange and red have the highest prices.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"wwm_socialshare_imagewrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1932 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GasBuddy-1.png\" alt=\"cheapest gas prices\" width=\"776\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GasBuddy-1.png 776w, https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GasBuddy-1-650x427.png 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the map below, for my upcoming drive (from central NC to northeast FL), the cheapest prices are in South Carolina, so this is where I&rsquo;ll aim to gas up:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GasBuddy-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1933 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GasBuddy-2.png\" alt=\"cheapest gas prices\" width=\"330\" height=\"366\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I zoom way in, I can see a price as low as $3.17\/gallon right off I-77, which I know I&rsquo;ll be taking:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GasBuddy-3.png\" class=\" wwm_socialshare_imagewrapper \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1934 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GasBuddy-3.png\" alt=\"cheapest gas prices\" width=\"540\" height=\"294\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you know the general area of where the cheapest gas prices are, you can use the app during your drive to find a specific station that&rsquo;s cheap and convenient!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have any other tips to add?&nbsp; Feel free to comment below!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wwm_social_share wwm_top_left\"><li class=\"wwm_pinit\"><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post will be a little different than most of the deals that I post about, but hopefully it&rsquo;ll still be useful given the upcoming 4th of July Holiday.&nbsp; Millions of people will be heading out on the roads this week, and no one is complaining that gas prices are too low.&nbsp; So I&rsquo;ve put together a couple tips for finding the cheapest gas prices along your drive, wherever you&rsquo;re headed. There are 2 main tools that I typically use to find the cheapest gas prices &ndash; the GasBuddy App and the GasBuddy Heat Map. GasBuddy App The GasBuddy App <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/29\/find-cheapest-gas-prices-along-drive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Find the Cheapest Gas Prices Along Your Drive<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks-and-special-deals"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Find the Cheapest Gas Prices Along Your Drive - 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