Review of Cheap Gas iPhone app – Things we can learn from it

This is what the app supposed to do: find the closest cheapest gas station based on your current location. But, instead, it gives you two options- either a closer but expensive gas station or a cheaper but far away gas station.

e.g., while I was driving through Galleria area in Houston TX, I was close to running on e and out I popped my cheap gas app. I was hoping to find which one of the 10 gas stations around that area (that I already know are there) was offering the cheapest gas. But it showed me that the cheapest gas station as 8 miles away from my current location while the other toggle view showed me the closest gas station which ironically had the highest gas price in the list. (pretty much defeated the purpose of Cheap Gas, I’d say)

(Avoiding a possible accident, left stunned by the reaction of the dysfunction app, I pulled in to the next gas station to fill up gas.)

Now I understand that for some species, driving 8 miles to get cheap gas would probably be an ideal solution, but I am more of an economy person and prefer a gas station that is close to where my car is running out of gas. But then, I am a skeptic and don’t believe in fueling obsessions.