GasoApp and Guia Pemex (Similar to GasBuddy)
Not quite 100% but neither is GasBuddy. Here are the two apps available for Android and iOS. GasoApp (on Google Play) I haven´t tried it yet, but users say that the downside is updated informat...
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Some folks are price watchers...
I personally am a "liter watcher"...
40 liters 668 pesos
use the "wrong" station 708 pesos for the same quantity of fuel.
708 / 19 = $37.31
668 / 19 = $35.15
35 centavos liter is like roughly 2% differential.
Difference in liter delivery is 5+% differential.
For the time being IT SEEMS AS THOUGH USA brand gasolineras are adhering to accurate pump dispensing. This depressingly is almost certain to change when pressure to gain clientele is not as strong.
Follow the taxis and the public in choosing a gasolinera. Those located on major interstate highways are inevitably the greediest.
Rounded off ---
A 100 gallon fuel up will cost $335.00 or $352.00 For twenty dollars US I'll drive a couple of miles off the main highway.
Stations in or near the largest cities seem to have pumps with the least "error". The most erroneous pumps are along the west coast, the southern 25% of the country and on the Baja California peninsula.
I remember the chofer of a TNS bus telling me (the gasolinera on the intersection of Mex 2 and Mex 15 in Sta Ana Sonora) "We get fuel here because they cheat us least"
For eleven gallons of gasoline. In a hundred gallon tank at 7 mpg it can add up fast.
Using PROFECO to monitor is like using a squirt gun on a forest fire. I can afford "inaccurate" dispensers. My friends and family cannot.
Price versus liters reminds me of the song Blondie sang...
"One way or the other....
I'm gonna gitcha gitcha gitcha
One way or the other..."
Except for the land, it costs far more to erect a franchise than it does in the USA. Thank Mexican bureaucracy for that. Over one hundred scheduled federal inspections during construction. A three feet high stack of paperwork from 11 different agencies.
I personally am a "liter watcher"...
40 liters 668 pesos
use the "wrong" station 708 pesos for the same quantity of fuel.
708 / 19 = $37.31
668 / 19 = $35.15
35 centavos liter is like roughly 2% differential.
Difference in liter delivery is 5+% differential.
For the time being IT SEEMS AS THOUGH USA brand gasolineras are adhering to accurate pump dispensing. This depressingly is almost certain to change when pressure to gain clientele is not as strong.
Follow the taxis and the public in choosing a gasolinera. Those located on major interstate highways are inevitably the greediest.
Rounded off ---
A 100 gallon fuel up will cost $335.00 or $352.00 For twenty dollars US I'll drive a couple of miles off the main highway.
Stations in or near the largest cities seem to have pumps with the least "error". The most erroneous pumps are along the west coast, the southern 25% of the country and on the Baja California peninsula.
I remember the chofer of a TNS bus telling me (the gasolinera on the intersection of Mex 2 and Mex 15 in Sta Ana Sonora) "We get fuel here because they cheat us least"
For eleven gallons of gasoline. In a hundred gallon tank at 7 mpg it can add up fast.
Using PROFECO to monitor is like using a squirt gun on a forest fire. I can afford "inaccurate" dispensers. My friends and family cannot.
Price versus liters reminds me of the song Blondie sang...
"One way or the other....
I'm gonna gitcha gitcha gitcha
One way or the other..."
Except for the land, it costs far more to erect a franchise than it does in the USA. Thank Mexican bureaucracy for that. Over one hundred scheduled federal inspections during construction. A three feet high stack of paperwork from 11 different agencies.
