Rack market

Fresno, CA

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

OPIS rack city 888 Gasoline & diesel Renewable diesel Biodiesel

terminals: 1
pipeline systems delivering: 1
refineries confirmed: 0
more per research or by route: 2
people in the trade area: 1,717,899
gal/day gasoline · estimated demand: 1,615,764
gal/day diesel · estimated demand: 416,189

Terminals in this market

Terminal	TCN	Location	Delivered by
Sfpp LP - Fresno Terminal	T-77-CA-4651	Fresno, CA	Kinder Morgan SFPP

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
Kinder Morgan SFPP	1	1	0	2

Refineries that can supply this market

Refinery	Location	Via	Link
Martinez Refining Company (formerly Shell Martinez Refinery)	Martinez, CA	Kinder Morgan SFPP	per research
Chevron Richmond Refinery	Richmond, CA	Kinder Morgan SFPP	inferred (same city)

Trade area

people in the trade area · 2025 estimate: 1,717,899
rank of 422 rack markets by people: #53
gallons of gasoline a day · estimate, 2025: 1,615,764
gallons of diesel a day · estimate, 2025: 416,189
counties wholly in this market: 2
counties shared with other markets: 13

County	State	Share here	People counted here	Gasoline gal/day	Diesel gal/day	County population	Miles
Fresno County	CA	100%	1,035,456	799,236	163,437	1,035,456	8
Tulare County	CA	36%	176,205	163,885	40,524	485,146	62
Madera County	CA	100%	167,927	196,220	56,861	167,927	37
Kings County	CA	60%	91,933	161,776	68,408	154,327	42
San Luis Obispo County	CA	29%	80,700	102,076	28,203	282,367	97
Monterey County	CA	18%	77,291	77,551	18,684	433,729	92
Merced County	CA	16%	48,810	55,900	18,956	297,260	65
San Benito County	CA	18%	12,762	10,690	3,406	70,082	74
Mariposa County	CA	43%	7,244	11,122	4,341	16,918	63
Nye County	NV	11%	6,347	6,782	2,139	57,336	201
Tuolumne County	CA	12%	6,236	5,419	1,475	53,160	94
Mono County	CA	28%	3,561	10,077	3,432	12,505	98
Inyo County	CA	14%	2,464	8,439	2,757	18,158	135
Mineral County	NV	18%	803	4,051	2,037	4,407	147
Esmeralda County	NV	20%	149	2,535	1,529	729	139

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

What it costs to move a gallon here from each pipeline origin at filed tariff rates: line-haul, the cost of financing the product on the way and in the tank, pipeline loss, and terminaling. It is a cost at filed rates, not a market price: add it to the origin spot price for a delivered cost. Lines marked "estimate" are placeholders until the pipeline or terminal figure is on file; in the routes table, * marks a figure taken from the tariff.

Gasoline: product adder

¢/gal · lowest adder: 6.28
¢/gal · line-haul tariff · published: 3.96
¢/gal · carrying cost · calculated: 0.49
¢/gal · pipeline loss · estimate: 0.33
¢/gal · terminaling · estimate: 1.50
days financed: 9.4

Lowest route: from Concord on Kinder Morgan SFPP to Fresno (Cal PUC No. 161 item 310).

How the lowest adder is worked, line by line

Line	¢/gal	Basis	Source or working
Line-haul tariff	3.961	published	Kinder Morgan SFPP Cal PUC No. 161 item 310: Concord → Fresno, 166.35 ¢/bbl
Carrying cost	0.494	calculated	$3.260000/gal × 5.9000% ÷ 365 × 9.375 days (1.875 in transit, 2.50 waiting on the cycle, 5.00 in terminal inventory); transit estimated: 180 pipeline miles at 4.0 mph (general estimate)
Pipeline loss	0.326	estimate	flat estimate $0.0033/gal, applied 1 time
Terminaling	1.500	estimate	Flat estimate: no fee on file for this terminal
Product adder	6.281		Sum of the lines above, over the origin spot price

Every published route, lowest adder first (2 of 2). Origins are priced at the same index here. "Origin must be cheaper by" is how far below the lowest route's origin a route's own origin price has to be before that route wins.

Origin	Pipeline	Delivery point	Terminals	Line-haul	Carrying	Loss	Terminaling	Adder ¢/gal	Days	Origin must be cheaper by	Tariff
Concord	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Fresno	Sfpp LP - Fresno Terminal	3.96	0.49	0.33	1.50	6.28	9.4	—	Cal PUC No. 161 item 310
Richmond	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Fresno	Sfpp LP - Fresno Terminal	3.96	0.50	0.33	1.50	6.29	9.5	0.01	Cal PUC No. 161 item 310

Diesel: product adder

¢/gal · lowest adder: 6.64
¢/gal · line-haul tariff · published: 3.96
¢/gal · carrying cost · calculated: 0.71
¢/gal · pipeline loss · estimate: 0.47
¢/gal · terminaling · estimate: 1.50
days financed: 9.4

Lowest route: from Concord on Kinder Morgan SFPP to Fresno (Cal PUC No. 161 item 310).

How the lowest adder is worked, line by line

Line	¢/gal	Basis	Source or working
Line-haul tariff	3.961	published	Kinder Morgan SFPP Cal PUC No. 161 item 310: Concord → Fresno, 166.35 ¢/bbl
Carrying cost	0.712	calculated	$4.700000/gal × 5.9000% ÷ 365 × 9.375 days (1.875 in transit, 2.50 waiting on the cycle, 5.00 in terminal inventory); transit estimated: 180 pipeline miles at 4.0 mph (general estimate)
Pipeline loss	0.470	estimate	flat estimate $0.0047/gal, applied 1 time
Terminaling	1.500	estimate	Flat estimate: no fee on file for this terminal
Product adder	6.643		Sum of the lines above, over the origin spot price

Origin	Pipeline	Delivery point	Terminals	Line-haul	Carrying	Loss	Terminaling	Adder ¢/gal	Days	Origin must be cheaper by	Tariff
Concord	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Fresno	Sfpp LP - Fresno Terminal	3.96	0.71	0.47	1.50	6.64	9.4	—	Cal PUC No. 161 item 310
Richmond	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Fresno	Sfpp LP - Fresno Terminal	3.96	0.72	0.47	1.50	6.65	9.5	0.01	Cal PUC No. 161 item 310

Inputs and assumptions behind these figures

Product value (for carrying cost and loss only): the prior day's spot price. Gasoline: OilPriceAPI GASOLINE_RBOB_USD, 2026-10-07. Diesel: OilPriceAPI HEATING_OIL_USD, 2026-10-07. These are the New York Harbor futures benchmarks, not a Gulf Coast price.
Interest rate: SOFR 3.90% (2026-10-06) + 2.0 points.
Transit (estimate): straight-line miles between the tariff origin and delivery point × 1.15, at 4.0 mph unless the pipeline has its own figure.
Days financed (estimate): transit, plus half a 5-day shipping cycle waiting to lift, plus 5 days of stock at the terminal.
Pipeline loss: the charge or volume deduction the tariff states, where it states one (marked *; a deduction is costed at the product value above). Otherwise an estimate of 0.10% of product value per pipeline, two for a joint rate; that includes pipelines that share out actual losses without publishing a figure.
Terminaling: the carrier's terminal charge where its tariff states one (marked *), otherwise a flat 1.5¢/gal estimate.
Rates used: each pipeline's ordinary filed rate. Committed, volume-tier, discount and bid rates are left out, as are conditional fees (shown on each pipeline page), additives, taxes and the value of line space.
Assumption set in force from 2026-10-01; review by 2027-01-01.

Published line-haul rates, all products and rate types

¢/gal · cheapest gasoline · from Richmond on Kinder Morgan SFPP: 3.96
¢/gal · cheapest diesel · from Richmond on Kinder Morgan SFPP: 3.96
¢/gal · cheapest jet fuel · from Richmond on Kinder Morgan SFPP: 3.96

Origin	Pipeline	Delivery point	Product	¢/bbl	¢/gal	Refineries at the origin	Tariff
Richmond	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Fresno	gasoline, distillate, jet fuel	166.35	3.96	Chevron Richmond Refinery	Cal PUC No. 161 item 310
Concord	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Fresno	gasoline, distillate, jet fuel	166.35	3.96	Martinez Refining Company (formerly Shell Martinez Refinery)	Cal PUC No. 161 item 310

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: Kinder Morgan SFPP. 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
Kinder Morgan SFPP	1	1	Sfpp LP - Fresno Terminal

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: +29.52
¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · highest: +29.52

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
Sfpp LP - Fresno Terminal	+29.52	rail	East Kansas Agri-Energy LLC (Garnett, KS)	1,842

Around the market

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Pump prices nearby

$6.227 Regular gasoline · California · +0.6% on the week · +40.1% on the year

$8.082 Diesel · California · -1.2% on the week · +62.3% on the year

EIA weekly retail survey, week of 2026-10-05: the closest area EIA reports, not this market alone.

Fuel taxes · California

92.0 ¢/gal Gasoline · state 73.6¢ + federal 18.4¢ (excise 63.4¢, other state taxes and fees 10.2¢)

117.3 ¢/gal Diesel · state 92.9¢ + federal 24.4¢ (excise 48.2¢, other state taxes and fees 44.7¢)

Taxed at: terminal rack
Sales tax on gasoline and diesel (plus an additional sales tax amount on retail diesel)
Local municipalities and special taxing districts may add sales taxes on top of the statewide rate (no amounts given).
Gasoline and diesel excise rates are adjusted annually each July 1 for the change in the California CPI.

Rates: EIA, in effect July 1, 2026, without county or city taxes. Rules: Federation of Tax Administrators, September 2025. Not tax advice: check the state agency before relying on a rate.

Terminal operators

1 operator; Kinder Morgan runs 100% of the terminals.

Kinder Morgan 1 terminal · 100%

Concentration index 10,000 (10,000 = one operator). By terminal count as named on the IRS list, not volume; affiliates under other names may be counted apart.

In the state

21 rack markets in CA.

Source

Rack market list and codes from OPIS; terminals from the IRS Terminal Control Number list; pipeline reach from published FERC and state tariffs; refinery links from tariffs and sourced research. Rack prices and suppliers posting at each terminal are not shown yet.

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.