I have to say, for the current scope of this website, and the driving habits of most Americans who use fuelly, there probably isn't much that a local app can do which the website can't, but is still useful.
The only thing that I can a see a local app doing better than the mobile site is loading the UI from memory when you're outside a service area, then storing the data for when the phone re-enters a service area. This same feature could also be applied to products like the iPad and iPod Touch as well, which don't have mobile internet, opening up new markets.
That being said, I've only once had to fuel up outside of 3G coverage, and if I had SMS service on my phone I could have used that to fuel up.
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