Go further with MapQuest Gas Prices
Posted Jun 15th 2008 8:40AM by Laura Peterson
As we head into the summer family roadtrip season, the prices at the pump are a bigger budget factor than ever. Minimize the costs of filling up by checking out MapQuest Gas Prices (gasprices.mapquest.com) before you refuel to find the cheapest gas rates in your area. Once you've found the station you want, use the familiar MapQuest layout to get directions to the station and other information.
Below is a quick tour of MapQuest Gas Prices:
After launching MapQuest Gas Prices a year ago, the MapQuest team recently added some features like gas calculators based on member feedback and requests. Straight from the MapQuest team blog, here's a full rundown of the latest features in MapQuest Gas Prices.
MapQuest for Mobile
Already on the road? If you have a cellphone with browsing capabilities, you can type in www.mapquest.com on your mobile web browser, or you can plan out routes and locations at home and click "send to cell" within any of your search results. Other than the standard costs from your wireless plan, these features are free. More info on MapQuest for mobile web is available here.
Traffic, Gas Prices and Events
You can also get a snapshot of local events, traffic news and gas price updates on the AOL welcome screen. Look for this little guy which appears towards the bottom of the welcome screen and aol.com:
Safe and happy travels this summer!
Cheers,
Laura
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Laura Peterson
Product Lead, AOL Desktop 
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Laura Peterson is a Principal Product Manager in AOL Products and the lead product manager on the AOL Desktop software. She works with AOL Product Development, Product Design, Quality Assurance, AOL Beta, Marketing, and AOL Help to create, talk about, launch, and support the AOL software! She also responds to as much member feedback and questions as she can via email, IM, and, of course, the blog itself. Walking the hallways of AOL since 2003, her previous assignments include work on the AOL 9.0 Optimized toolbar, AOL's voice services products, and other software releases such as 9.0 VR and the first AOL Mail and AIM Gadget.
Doran Butuche is the lead product manager on Desktop Gadgets, those cool mini-applications that live in the Vista Sidebar, where he is responsible for product definition and management.
Summer is a Sr. Manager for AOL Member Communications. While she has no ties directly to the product development team, she has been a contributor to many AOL blogs over the last few years and is excited to bring a non-product team perspective to the Desktop blog.
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