The higher gasoline prices go, the more money business Web entrepreneur Jason Toews makes.He started an Internet site, GasBuddy.com, in 2000 to track daily gasoline prices using volunteers to e-mail what they find. "Hardly anybody ever used it," Toews, of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, recalled.
By 2004, 1 million people were visiting the site daily, although the numbers dropped when prices went down.
But at the pace hits were being recorded Thursday, the site was likely to break its record of 4 million visitors, Toews said. As gasoline prices have risen, so have the hits on his site and another, GasPriceWatch.com.
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