I have an irrational obsession with gas economy. Both the improve-gas-mileage and the save-money variety. For the latter, I’ve spent the last few years watching oil futures and other sources to attempt to predict when is the best time to fuel up.

Truth be told, even if the gas prices goes up by 1¢/L, you’re only paying 40¢-50¢ more per tank. As of November 16, I’ve pumped exactly 3888L of gas into our car in a little over two years. All this time tracking gas prices and I’ve only made $38.88 difference. I told you I was OCD about it.

In recent times, the best source for the next day’s price was MP Dan McTeague‘s webpage. He has taken it upon himself to be a watchdog on the gasoline industry, and through his knowledge is able to predict with 100% accuracy what the next day’s gas price will be. The only drawback is that this number is not updated until in the evening (i.e., after 5PM).

But this week, there was a second drawback introduced – their site redesign. The gas prices went from a single, bookmarkable page to an entire site which serves as a platform for gas industry issues and advertisement. I’m all for increasing awareness about the issue but they made the site unusable for me; I’m not able to directly find out the price of gas in Toronto, nor is the site easily accessible from my cellphone.

Instead of ranting about it on my blog, I made my own site for displaying gas prices in Toronto. It’s a simple, tells you the price of gas, and most importantly – convenient.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: gas, obsessivecompulsive, webgeek