| Type | Private | ||
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| Founded | Brooklyn Park, Minnesota (October, 1999)[1] |
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| Headquarters | Brooklyn Park, Minnesota | ||
| Area served | United States and Canada (major metropolitan areas) | ||
| Website | GasBuddy.com | ||
| Type of site | Gasoline price website | ||
| Advertising | Banner ads | ||
| Registration | Not Required | ||
| Available in | English | ||
| Launched | June, 2000 [1] | ||
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GasBuddy Organization Inc., is a Minneapolis business filed in 2004 as a Minnesota for-profit corporation.[2]
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Dustin Coupal and Jason Toews founded GasBuddy Organization, Inc in October 1999 in Minneapolis, MN. GasBuddy's first website, TwinCitiesGasPrices.com was released in June, 2000. GasBuddy covers every major metro area in the United States and Canada.[1]
Its numerous websites provide the public a way to report and see prices of motor fuel in U.S. and Canada.[3] Users report motor fuel prices in their area which will be made available to other visitors immediately. Each entry is timestamped.[4]
Although registered users are not directly compensated, they are given points for their participating which allow them to obtain electronic tickets to games of chance in which they can win prizes, such as prepaid gas cards.
The company's websites offer additional features such as fuel log book which allows users to record fuel purchases, odometer miles and keep a log of fuel usage.[5]