Simplify Your Business Life / Green Business – Manage Fuel Economy and Track Expenses
Friday, April 3rd, 2009 | Green Business, Simplify Your Work Life
With energy efficiency increasingly important amid environmental concerns, not to mention the rising price of gasoline, you want to stay on top of fuel consumption, gas mileage and expenses.
Several online sites let you monitor that information. They’re all simple to use: sign up online, then input data through the web, through Twitter or through your mobile phone. Then you can generate reports, observe trends and even look at cost projections to help with budgeting.
MyMileMarker.com lets you use your PDA or smartphone to enter info through their mobile site. One of the hardest parts of using a service like this is remembering to actually use it. I don’t know about you, but despite my best intentions to record the info when I get back to the office from the gas station, by the time I actually arrive my brain has already moved on.
Mobile access means you can update the info every time you stop at a gas station, while you’re still thinking about it.
Other similar sites:
MPGTune.com. The site is kind of confusing, but MPGTune.com offers another nifty way to enter data in addition to mobile access: via text message.
FuelFrog.com. Like MyMileMarker.com, you can also input account info using Twitter.
TrackYourGasMileage.com. Though it has the most descriptive name, it’s not quite as powerful as the other sites.
AccuFuel. Not an online site, but a $.99 app for the iPhone which serves the same function.
AutoKeeper. A $3.95 program for Windows Mobile devices.
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