Road to cheap gas
Cell phone GPS device helps reporter map out the lowest price at the pump

 
By Jim Stafford
Published: June 28, 2008

Technology promised me fuel for my vehicle at $3.679 per gallon Friday if I followed the female voice of a GPS-equipped wireless phone to 164 Street in far north Oklahoma City .

I was misled by a penny per gallon.

When I arrived at the Murphy USA station on the parking lot of a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market, the price of regular unleaded was $3.689, a penny more than promised on the AT&T Fuel Finder site I f...


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