Patent ID: 7661446

Claim:
A method for operating and managing a re-fueling business, the method comprising: contracting with a customer to fuel a fuel consuming automobile that said customer drives to and between various locations that include at least a first location and a second location; providing a locking device with a fuel tank of said automobile, said locking device being unlockable by the re-fueling business and the customer; transporting a fuel containing structure from the re-fueling business to both said first and said second locations of said automobile whenever a fueling of said automobile is desirable to the business and said customer, said locations being remote of the business; unlocking said locking device of said fuel tank upon arrival at said locations; filling said fuel tank with an amount of fuel from said fuel containing structure upon said transporting of said fuel container to said locations, and re-locking said locking device after filling said fuel tank with said amount of fuel, wherein said transporting and said filling occurs on multiple occasions; providing said automobile of said customer with a transceiver that is in communication with a computing resource located at the business, and communicating location information pertaining to said locations and fuel information fuel level of said fuel tank from said transceiver to said computing resource; scheduling said transporting to said locations based on an analyzing of said location information and said fuel information; and minimizing costs of said transporting associated with travel time and travel frequency based on said analyzing of said of said location information and said fuel information.