Or make a phone tree! Just kidding about the phone tree. Some friends and I did this during the last gas spike, in the pre-app era. It may seem clunky, but create your own crowdsourcing and ask your friends to post prices near their homes in a group text.
If you’re wrapped up in your bad-boy image on the road, these changes may not be what you’re looking for, but they will be easier on your wallet and you can use that money to buy a leather jacket or something. And, if you’re buying a car, buy a more fuel efficient one – there are even fuel efficient SUVs on the market now. Driving less, not letting your car idle and bundling errands also helps. Related: 5 Ways to Get Better Gas Mileage In Any Car Or There’s Always “Don’t Drive Like a Maniac”ĭriving fast, hard accelerations, sustained high rpms…these are all behaviors you can change to use less gas. This is one story we’ll be watching as it plays out. In a “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie” moment, you can use the debit card, but there was a class-action lawsuit filed on Maalleging that use of GasBuddy’s debit card can incur large numbers of NSF fees because of how they batch process transactions and approve charges. Love’s has a partnership with GasBuddy that offers a $0.05/gallon discount when you use the GasBuddy debit card. Photo: Sara Lacey But, Know the Cost of Loyalty Before Signing Up
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So what is a driver to do? Related: Do You Really Need Premium Gas? Here’s How To Know “But the app appears to collect such an abundance of other data-including your name, address, email, phone number, IP address, and more-that restricting your location data will likely make only a small dent in what GasBuddy shares with data brokers and advertisers.” Wirecutter makes the GasBuddy’s data collection clear: But it is not just the location tracking. and you can disable the location tracking from your device’s Settings app. To be clear, you can opt out of the Drive feature altogether, and opt out of location sharing while in the GasBuddy app. Your driving behaviors could then be turned into a score by those insurance companies to determine your riskiness. If you opt into using the “Drive” feature, GasBuddy will monitor your driving habits and send that information along to insurance companies. A 2017 lawsuit discussed in this article by Car and Driver revealed that GasBuddy was selling location data for $9.
If you choose to investigate the privacy policy, you’ll learn that GasBuddy can collect and sell your information to data companies like Foursquare and Cuebiq. While the crowdsourcing aspect of the app may provide the most accurate, immediate relief from prices at the pump, there may be hidden costs within GasBuddy, including significant loss of your privacy. But not so fast, says this article from Wirecutter.
One of the apps that topped my search is GasBuddy, and as of today it has a five-star rating. From all the choices out there, an app that employs crowdsourcing would seem to be the best, most up-to-date option to select. With the current rise in gas prices, you may now be considering an app to find the cheapest prices at gas pumps close to you, if you don’t have one already. Photo: Sara Lacey Apps help us with a lot of things, but use caution when considering GasBuddy.
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