Once again we are into the summer season and gas prices are up. Just this week I drove my kids to Hilton Head Island for a quick two days at the beach. The drive is just under 5 hours for us but along the way I was astonished at the different fuel prices I saw. Fortunately my car gets decent fuel economy so I was never really strapped to where I had to fill up. I did observe however that the prices were higher in the resort locations (of course Hilton Head) or places where people would possibly be stuck paying the asking price because there was no other option (right along the freeway or in towns so small that there were few options).

Fortunately for consumers, there are some options that make it easy to find the cheapest gas prices in your area. I tend to use http://autos.msn.com/everyday/GasStationsBeta.aspx or you can go to www.fueleconomy.gov to find several sites. I even found an application for my iPhone and it appears as though there are applications for Android phones as well. Applications like these provide consumers the ability to instantaneously compare prices and select the best station. It doesn’t get much better than that!