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Austin, TX

#59 of 422 U.S. rack markets by terminals

OPIS rack city 595 Gasoline & diesel Biodiesel
terminals
5
pipeline systems delivering
0
refineries confirmed
1
more per research or by route
0
people in the trade area
2,776,099
gal/day gasoline · estimated demand
3,309,756
gal/day diesel · estimated demand
1,233,638

Terminals in this market

The racks that post prices in this market. Pipelines = systems with a tariff delivery point at the terminal.
Terminal TCN Location Delivered by
Flint Hills Resources L.p. - Austin Fuels Terminal T-74-TX-2706 Austin, TX no pipeline tariff on file
Flint Hills Resources LP - Bastrop Terminal T-74-TX-2752 Cedar Creek, TX no pipeline tariff on file
Flint Hills Resources Taylor Terminal T-74-TX-2765 Taylor, TX no pipeline tariff on file
Mustang Ridge Fuels Terminal T-74-TX-2758 Buda, TX no pipeline tariff on file
Valero Taylor Terminal T-75-TX-2696 Taylor, TX no pipeline tariff on file

Pipelines delivering to this market

No pipeline tariff delivers to a terminal in this market on file: it is supplied by truck, rail or water, or the tariff has not been read yet.

Refineries that can supply this market

Running refineries that can reach a terminal here by published route, including across connecting carriers, confirmed links first. 1 are confirmed or named in a tariff; 0 are per research; 0 are inferred because the refinery shares a city with a tariff origin. Capacity, contracts and who actually ships are not known from tariffs.
Refinery Location Via Link
Valero Corpus Christi Refinery (East & West Plants) Corpus Christi, TX named in a tariff

Trade area

people in the trade area · 2025 estimate
2,776,099
rank of 422 rack markets by people
#20
gallons of gasoline a day · estimate, 2025
3,309,756
gallons of diesel a day · estimate, 2025
1,233,638
counties wholly in this market
4
counties shared with other markets
13
An estimate of who lifts here. Each county goes to its nearest rack market with terminals; a market within 1.5 times that distance (or 25 miles more) shares it, up to 4 markets, weighted toward the closer one and the one with more terminals. Distances are straight-line from the county’s centre. Shares of a county always add to 100%, so the people counted across all markets add back to the U.S. total.
County State Share here People counted here Gasoline gal/day Diesel gal/day County population Miles
Travis County TX 100% 1,389,670 1,565,708 503,428 1,389,670 12
Williamson County TX 100% 752,827 796,546 288,376 752,827 22
Bell County TX 45% 182,822 249,894 129,650 402,248 48
Hays County TX 56% 171,767 200,060 73,053 304,390 35
Bastrop County TX 100% 118,908 168,208 75,916 118,908 21
Burnet County TX 100% 57,015 116,423 56,269 57,015 51
Caldwell County TX 54% 29,980 45,388 23,030 55,150 35
Lampasas County TX 61% 14,362 22,443 11,357 23,657 73
Llano County TX 55% 12,858 19,389 9,045 23,353 73
Fayette County TX 41% 10,535 46,436 22,665 25,459 49
Gillespie County TX 32% 9,183 16,016 8,065 28,527 84
Lee County TX 40% 7,518 17,963 8,860 18,729 33
Blanco County TX 51% 6,898 21,263 11,155 13,581 52
Milam County TX 25% 6,664 12,220 6,917 26,258 45
San Saba County TX 41% 2,373 4,386 2,095 5,787 95
Mills County TX 34% 1,546 4,660 2,267 4,580 103
Mason County TX 29% 1,173 2,754 1,488 3,990 104

Fuel demand is an estimate: each state’s taxed gallons for the year (FHWA) are split among its counties by where the driving happens (EPA county vehicle miles, weighted by how much fuel each vehicle type burns), then shared to markets as above. Every state adds back to its FHWA total. Gasoline includes the ethanol blended into it; diesel is FHWA’s special fuels. Expect diesel to be least reliable along long-haul corridors, where trucks buy fuel in one county and burn it in another. Population: U.S. Census Bureau county estimates.

How good is it? Checked in October 2026 against the county retail sales Iowa and California publish: for gasoline, about 3–5% of gallons landed in the wrong rack market and a typical market was within 5–6%. For diesel, 14–21% landed in the wrong market and a typical market was 30–45% off, with truck-stop corridors such as Bakersfield and Stockton under-counted. Treat gasoline as a working estimate and diesel as a rough guide.

Cost to serve this market by pipeline

No published pipeline rate into a terminal here is on file yet. Markets supplied by truck, rail or water have no tariff to read.

Supply resilience

pipeline supply
No pipeline
pipeline systems delivering
0
terminals on two or more pipelines
0
terminals with no pipeline tariff
5

No pipeline tariff delivers here on file: the market depends on truck, rail or water, or its tariff has not been read.

Counts pipeline systems with a tariff delivery point here, not capacity, storage or contracts. A system with two lines into the market still counts once, and a terminal with one pipeline may also receive by truck, rail or water. For a refinery or pipeline outage across every market it touches, open that facility’s page.

Delivered ethanol cost

¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · lowest in the market
+16.47
¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · highest
+16.97

An estimate for each terminal: the cheapest of published rail rates and trucking from the nearest plants, plus basis, transload, terminaling and carrying cost. Each terminal page shows the build-up line by line.

Terminal ¢/gal over Chicago By From Miles
Flint Hills Resources Taylor Terminal +16.47 rail Arkalon Ethanol LLC (Liberal, KS) 668
Valero Taylor Terminal +16.47 rail Arkalon Ethanol LLC (Liberal, KS) 668
Flint Hills Resources L.p. - Austin Fuels Terminal +16.48 rail Arkalon Ethanol LLC (Liberal, KS) 689
Flint Hills Resources LP - Bastrop Terminal +16.97 rail Arkalon Ethanol LLC (Liberal, KS) 714
Mustang Ridge Fuels Terminal +16.97 rail Arkalon Ethanol LLC (Liberal, KS) 713

Nearby rack markets

Rack markets within 75 miles (straight line): where a buyer here could also lift.

Rack market Miles Terminals Pipelines
Wilcox, TX 62 2 1
Hearne, TX 69 2 —
Bryan, TX 72 1 1

Rates are pipeline line-haul transcribed from published FERC tariffs; every figure cites its tariff and item. Cost to serve (netback) adds origin spot price and destination fees. "Confirmed" links match a tariff delivery point to the facility; "same city" means the point is in the facility's city — plausible, not proof; "per research" means the facility's research profile names the pipeline as an outlet.