Rack market

Moses Lake, WA

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

OPIS rack code 920 Gasoline & diesel Biodiesel

terminals: 1
pipeline systems delivering: 1
refineries in market: 0
refineries supplying market: 0
people in the trade area: 259,653
gal/day gasoline · estimated demand: 299,352
gal/day diesel · estimated demand: 103,913

Terminals in this market

Terminal	TCN	Location	Delivered by
Phillips 66 Pipeline - Moses Lake	T-91-WA-4401	Moses Lake, WA	Yellowstone 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
Yellowstone Pipeline	1	1	0	0

Refineries that can supply this market

No refinery has a published pipeline route here on file.

Trade area

people in the trade area · 2025 estimate: 259,653
rank of 422 rack markets by people: #290
gallons of gasoline a day · estimate, 2025: 299,352
gallons of diesel a day · estimate, 2025: 103,913
counties wholly in this market: 2
counties shared with other markets: 10

County	State	Share here	People counted here	Gasoline gal/day	Diesel gal/day	County population	Miles
Grant County	WA	100%	105,727	111,397	37,586	105,727	9
Douglas County	WA	100%	46,473	42,445	11,970	46,473	43
Yakima County	WA	17%	43,128	33,305	9,353	259,185	86
Chelan County	WA	17%	14,151	12,166	3,402	81,941	78
Adams County	WA	58%	12,487	34,435	13,228	21,488	39
Kittitas County	WA	26%	12,445	29,414	15,354	48,803	66
Okanogan County	WA	23%	10,457	11,901	3,783	45,230	96
Nez Perce County	ID	12%	5,110	6,892	2,483	42,905	133
Lincoln County	WA	39%	4,659	12,158	5,190	11,982	49
Asotin County	WA	12%	2,638	1,249	331	22,545	120
Ferry County	WA	28%	2,076	3,280	949	7,517	95
Garfield County	WA	13%	309	713	286	2,416	98

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 a supply 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. The figure shown is the lowest route that starts where product enters the pipeline system; where a second pipeline is needed to reach here, both are costed. 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 · product adder: 3.44
¢/gal · line-haul tariff · published: 1.19
¢/gal · carrying cost · calculated: 0.44
¢/gal · pipeline loss · estimate: 0.31
¢/gal · terminaling · estimate: 1.50
days financed: 8.7

Route used: from Yellowstone Pipe Line Company's Spokane on Yellowstone Pipeline to Moses Lake, Washington (FERC No. 123.23.0 item Table of Rates).

How this adder is worked, line by line

Line	¢/gal	Basis	Source or working
Line-haul tariff	1.195	published	Yellowstone Pipeline FERC No. 123.23.0 item Table of Rates: Yellowstone Pipe Line Company's Spokane (Parkwater) Delivery Station, Spokane County, WA → Moses Lake, Washington, 50.17 ¢/bbl
Carrying cost	0.438	calculated	$3.120000/gal × 5.9200% ÷ 365 × 8.656 days (1.156 in transit, 2.50 waiting on the cycle, 5.00 in terminal inventory); transit estimated: 111 pipeline miles at 4.0 mph (general estimate)
Pipeline loss	0.312	estimate	flat estimate $0.0031/gal, applied 1 time
Terminaling	1.500	estimate	Flat estimate: no fee on file for this terminal
Product adder	3.445		Sum of the lines above, over the origin spot price

Diesel: product adder

¢/gal · product adder: 3.87
¢/gal · line-haul tariff · published: 1.19
¢/gal · carrying cost · calculated: 0.68
¢/gal · pipeline loss · estimate: 0.49
¢/gal · terminaling · estimate: 1.50
days financed: 8.7

Route used: from Yellowstone Pipe Line Company's Spokane on Yellowstone Pipeline to Moses Lake, Washington (FERC No. 123.23.0 item Table of Rates).

How this adder is worked, line by line

Line	¢/gal	Basis	Source or working
Line-haul tariff	1.195	published	Yellowstone Pipeline FERC No. 123.23.0 item Table of Rates: Yellowstone Pipe Line Company's Spokane (Parkwater) Delivery Station, Spokane County, WA → Moses Lake, Washington, 50.17 ¢/bbl
Carrying cost	0.684	calculated	$4.870000/gal × 5.9200% ÷ 365 × 8.656 days (1.156 in transit, 2.50 waiting on the cycle, 5.00 in terminal inventory); transit estimated: 111 pipeline miles at 4.0 mph (general estimate)
Pipeline loss	0.487	estimate	flat estimate $0.0049/gal, applied 1 time
Terminaling	1.500	estimate	Flat estimate: no fee on file for this terminal
Product adder	3.865		Sum of the lines above, over the origin spot price

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, 2026-10-26. Diesel: OilPriceAPI HEATING_OIL_USD, 2026-10-26. These are the New York Harbor futures benchmarks, not a Gulf Coast price.
Interest rate: SOFR 3.92% (2026-10-23) + 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 (once for each pipeline on a two-pipeline route), 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, and tariffs that state no loss term.
Terminaling: the carrier's terminal charge where its tariff states one (marked *), otherwise a flat 1.5¢/gal estimate.
Which route sets the figure: the lowest one that starts at a supply origin. On Colonial that is Houston. A rate that starts part-way along a pipeline, or at a secondary origin, stays in the table but does not set the figure. Where a rate starts at a point another carrier delivers to, the first carrier's lowest rate into that point is added, with its loss and time in the pipe; terminaling is charged once. The same is done where one pipeline files the movement as two rates. Which origins are treated this way is our own review of each system, not a statement in a tariff.
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 Yellowstone Pipe Line Company's Spokane on Yellowstone Pipeline: 1.20
¢/gal · cheapest diesel · from Yellowstone Pipe Line Company's Spokane on Yellowstone Pipeline: 1.20
¢/gal · cheapest jet fuel · from Yellowstone Pipe Line Company's Spokane on Yellowstone Pipeline: 1.20

Origin	Pipeline	Delivery point	Product	¢/bbl	¢/gal	Refineries at the origin	Tariff
Yellowstone Pipe Line Company's Spokane (Parkwater) Delivery Station, Spokane County, WA	Yellowstone Pipeline	Moses Lake, Washington	gasoline, distillate, jet fuel	50.17	1.20		FERC No. 123.23.0 item Table of Rates

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: Yellowstone 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
Yellowstone Pipeline	1	1	Phillips 66 Pipeline - Moses Lake

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: +24.04
¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · highest: +24.04

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
Phillips 66 Pipeline - Moses Lake	+24.04	rail	Arkalon Ethanol LLC (Liberal, KS)	1,604

Nearby rack markets

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

Rack market	Miles	Terminals	Pipelines
Pasco, WA	67	3	3

Around the market

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Pump prices nearby

$5.203 Regular gasoline · Washington · -2.4% on the week · +20.9% on the year

$7.329 Diesel · PADD 5 · -0.9% on the week · +65.8% on the year

EIA weekly retail survey, week of 2026-10-26: the closest area EIA reports, not this market alone.

Fuel taxes · Washington

78.6 ¢/gal Gasoline · state 60.2¢ + federal 18.4¢ (excise 56.5¢, other state taxes and fees 3.7¢)

87.6 ¢/gal Diesel · state 63.2¢ + federal 24.4¢ (excise 59.5¢, other state taxes and fees 3.7¢)

Taxed at: terminal rack
Figured on billed gallons
Counties or cities may add their own fuel tax.

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; Phillips 66 runs 100% of the terminals.

Phillips 66 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

8 rack markets in WA.

Source

Rack markets are our own grouping of terminals, with the matching OPIS rack code shown for reference. Terminals from the IRS Terminal Control Number list; pipeline reach from published FERC and state tariffs; refinery links from tariffs and sourced research.

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.