| ▲ | culi 5 hours ago | |||||||
GasBuddy is great for this. You can see average gas prices across all gas stations for a certain region (or nation-wide). https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts The data goes back even over 25 years if you play around with the query params (it started in June of 2000). E.g. https://charts.gasbuddy.com/ch.gaschart?Country=USA&Crude=f&... | ||||||||
| ▲ | lafond 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
GasBuddy is great, no doubt! I was well familiar with them before working on the site. The issue is that their data is user reported and not directly reported from Costco's warehouse numbers - so there were a few times that the price was vastly different from what was at the pump. | ||||||||
| ▲ | art222 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
The user-reported vs source-reported thing is bigger than people think. I work with car listing prices and the gap between what people say something costs and what the source actually shows is basically the whole reason my product works. Pulling from the warehouse numbers is the right call even if the coverage is smaller. | ||||||||
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