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Colorado Springs, CO

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

OPIS rack city 796 Gasoline & diesel Aviation gasoline Biodiesel
terminals
1
pipeline systems delivering
1
refineries confirmed
2
more per research or by route
0
people in the trade area
736,289
gal/day gasoline · estimated demand
752,038
gal/day diesel · estimated demand
220,319

Terminals in this market

The racks that post prices in this market. Pipelines = systems with a tariff delivery point at the terminal.
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Terminal TCN Location Delivered by
Nustar - Colorado Springs T-84-CO-4108 Colorado Springs, CO NuStar Pipeline

Pipelines delivering to this market

Each system with a tariff delivery point at one of this market’s terminals, and how many running refineries can ship on it to here.

Pipeline system Terminals here Delivery points Refineries confirmed All reachable
NuStar Pipeline 1 2 1 1

Refineries that can supply this market

Running refineries that can reach a terminal here by published route, including across connecting carriers, confirmed links first. 2 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.
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Refinery Location Via Link
Borger Refinery (WRB Refining / Phillips 66) Borger, TX Phillips 66 Pipeline confirmed
Valero McKee Refinery Sunray, TX NuStar Pipeline confirmed

Trade area

people in the trade area · 2025 estimate
736,289
rank of 422 rack markets by people
#152
gallons of gasoline a day · estimate, 2025
752,038
gallons of diesel a day · estimate, 2025
220,319
counties wholly in this market
0
counties shared with other markets
27
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.
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County State Share here People counted here Gasoline gal/day Diesel gal/day County population Miles
El Paso County CO 68% 517,210 472,822 109,619 757,040 9
Douglas County CO 17% 68,496 70,377 18,936 399,396 40
Pueblo County CO 33% 55,066 59,326 19,094 169,277 44
Fremont County CO 45% 22,463 21,152 7,552 50,039 46
Teller County CO 53% 13,183 13,603 4,705 24,756 28
Elbert County CO 25% 7,502 8,700 5,263 30,534 48
Eagle County CO 12% 6,412 12,747 5,654 54,291 123
Alamosa County CO 36% 5,959 8,236 3,066 16,688 103
Chaffee County CO 25% 5,114 7,774 3,195 20,831 87
Summit County CO 14% 4,340 9,872 3,797 31,517 97
Park County CO 22% 4,057 7,958 3,853 18,314 61
Saguache County CO 47% 3,192 5,953 2,922 6,732 99
Rio Grande County CO 28% 3,087 4,265 2,093 11,087 132
Gunnison County CO 17% 3,048 5,064 2,117 17,439 129
Custer County CO 44% 2,461 2,350 1,162 5,590 60
Huerfano County CO 32% 2,247 8,553 5,674 7,011 77
Colfax County NM 18% 2,182 4,878 5,653 12,184 150
Pitkin County CO 13% 2,135 3,967 1,070 16,625 124
Kit Carson County CO 22% 1,566 6,202 4,726 7,069 117
Conejos County CO 21% 1,565 1,687 902 7,529 136
Lincoln County CO 24% 1,343 6,196 3,993 5,645 65
Lake County CO 16% 1,223 1,860 658 7,552 94
Costilla County CO 33% 1,197 3,080 1,508 3,679 112
Washington County CO 11% 529 1,731 1,084 4,732 113
Cheyenne County CO 22% 370 2,043 1,179 1,713 112
Mineral County CO 23% 206 1,352 726 910 149
Hinsdale County CO 16% 122 276 115 753 159

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.

Cost to serve this market by pipeline

¢/gal · cheapest gasoline · from McKee Station / McKee-DS / McKee-DSCOLO Station on NuStar Pipeline
3.84
¢/gal · cheapest diesel · from McKee Station / McKee-DS / McKee-DSCOLO Station on NuStar Pipeline
3.84
¢/gal · cheapest jet fuel · from Colorado Springs Station / NuStar Colorado Springs Terminal on NuStar Pipeline
1.05
Published line-haul rates into a terminal here, cheapest first (3 of 3 routes). Add the origin spot price for a delivered cost; compare that with the rack price for the netback. Not included: terminal throughput and rack fees, and the 19 conditional tariff fees listed on each pipeline page.
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Origin Pipeline Delivery point Product ¢/bbl ¢/gal Refineries at the origin Tariff
Colorado Springs Station / NuStar Colorado Springs Terminal NuStar Pipeline City of Colorado Springs Airport Jet Fuel Depot jet fuel 44.00 1.05 Colorado P.U.C. No. 20
McKee Station / McKee-DS / McKee-DSCOLO Station (Valero McKee refinery), Moore County NuStar Pipeline Colorado Springs Station, El Paso County, CO gasoline, distillate 161.11 3.84 Valero McKee Refinery FERC No. 65.30.0
McKee Station / McKee-DS / McKee-DSCOLO Station (Valero McKee refinery), Moore County NuStar Pipeline Colorado Springs Station, El Paso County, CO gasoline, distillate 281.02 6.69 Valero McKee Refinery FERC No. 65.30.0

Supply resilience

pipeline supply
One pipeline
pipeline systems delivering
1
terminals on two or more pipelines
0
terminals with no pipeline tariff
0

One pipeline system delivers here: NuStar Pipeline. An outage on it leaves the market to truck, rail or water.

If a pipeline system goes down

Pipeline system Terminals it reaches here With no other pipeline Which
NuStar Pipeline 1 1 Nustar - Colorado Springs

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
+1.02
¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · highest
+1.02

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
Nustar - Colorado Springs +1.02 truck Mid America Agri Products LLC (Madrid, NE) 247

Nearby rack markets

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

Rack market Miles Terminals Pipelines
Fountain, CO 8 1 1
Denver, CO 72 9 2

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.