20.04.2022, 19:33 | from Editorial team CHIP/DPA
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There is an app for almost everything. It’s correct. But there is often a web app that serves the purpose well or even better. The fuel price comparison is such a case.
Gas stations are under close scrutiny in times of skyrocketing fuel prices. Where fuel is already far too expensive, nobody wants to pay more than absolutely necessary. It’s a good thing that the Federal Cartel Office is helping to compare.
Since the end of 2013, its market transparency office for fuels has been collecting the current prices at filling stations nationwide and is currently passing them on to almost 50 information service providers, who then bring the price data to the consumer.
Almost all services also offer apps. The installation of an application alone seems almost oversized for the task at hand. Worse still, a tank app usually brings annoying ads and lots of trackers to your smartphone.
Websites such as the tidy “Ich-tanke.de” or Sparsamtanken are possibly the better alternative. Stored as a bookmark in the smartphone browser, such a page is in no way inferior to an app in terms of functionality.
In addition to the obligatory gas station and price search, there is also a map or a practical forecast function. The latter shows when fuel prices in the region are likely to be lowest.