Fuel prices in comparison – State app for gasoline prices has good chances in parliament | Pirmin Bischof from the center wants gas stations to have to report gasoline prices daily. Thomas Aeschi from the SVP is against it, because there is already such a solution from the TCS.(German)
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Please not a state app for this. Why would the government fund this nonsense?
Well… For once the SVP is right. *to me
Did somebody tried the TCS app? How are they gathering their data?
I think the problem isn’t the app to compare prices itself.
Several can be developed and compete.
The problem it is to make legaly mandatory for gas station to share their price. So with possible “check” and fine is not/incorrectly done.
Then I guess you’ll need to gather the data and share it though an API to be used by anodbody (probably what people would call “the app”)
I’m not a developer, so I no idea how much this would cost…
Why bother? Are you really gonna drive 30 min to somewhere so you can save 0.03 x 60 = 1.80 CHF?
obviously you have to account for the fuel you use when you drove there so your actual saving is maybe 1.20 CHF?
If they do this they should also include the price of all public chargers per kW/h and make manufacturers give range estimates per kW/h on cars, so that people can see how expensive charging is and force the government to take action of charging infrastructure.
Virtue signalling banning of gasoline fuelled cars by 2030 is really cool when half the politicians in office now will be retired by then, and the other half won’t care enough to deal with the fallout. Meanwhile it’s 2023 and one in every three chargers is broken, there’s like 8 total for a whole parking lot and every single one uses a completely different app and systems for payments and accounts.