Tweeters Meet mOblu-ers? The Latest in Social Networking for Gas Guzzlers

As fuel prices average at least $2.50 per gallon in every state except South Carolina, a new Web site combines a fuel tracker with a social networking tool by allowing motorists to track how much they spend at the pump and how much bang they get for their buck. Oh, and they can then tell the whole world about it on Twitter.

I recall the good old days when motorists would keep a fuel and maintenance log in their glove compartments and enter in their odometer reading at each fill-up as well as monitoring their car’s service needs. Today, meet mOblu.com. The free site, originating from a husband and wife team joined by a computer programmer and a software engineer from Canada, has been featured in recently in the New York Times, Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal as the latest fad for the technorati to chart their vehicle’s gas mileage.

But it does more than just log your trips. Enter a starting point and destination and it will tell you the amount of carbon monoxide produced, in addition to the amount of fuel used and the fuel cost based upon the price you most recently paid at the pump. Sounds similar to fleet software. But in your garage can you also calculate the carbon cost of your vehicle?