Rack market

San Diego, CA

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

OPIS rack city 950 Gasoline & diesel Renewable diesel Aviation gasoline Biodiesel

terminals: 3
pipeline systems delivering: 1
refineries in market: 0
refineries supplying market: 4
people in the trade area: 3,829,492
gal/day gasoline · estimated demand: 3,753,569
gal/day diesel · estimated demand: 859,476

Terminals in this market

Terminal	TCN	Location	Delivered by
Chevron Products Company	T-33-CA-4773	San Diego, CA	Kinder Morgan SFPP
Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal	T-33-CA-4776	San Diego, CA	Kinder Morgan SFPP
Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	T-33-CA-4782	San Diego, 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	3	4	0	4

Refineries that can supply this market

Refinery	Location	Via	Link
Chevron El Segundo Refinery	El Segundo, CA	Kinder Morgan SFPP	per research
Marathon Los Angeles Refinery (Carson Operations; formerly Tesoro Los Angeles Refinery)	Carson, CA	Kinder Morgan SFPP	per research
PBF Energy Torrance Refinery	Torrance, CA	Kinder Morgan SFPP	per research
Valero Wilmington Refinery (formerly Ultramar Wilmington Refinery)	Wilmington Refinery, CA	Kinder Morgan SFPP	per research

Trade area

people in the trade area · 2025 estimate: 3,829,492
rank of 422 rack markets by people: #8
gallons of gasoline a day · estimate, 2025: 3,753,569
gallons of diesel a day · estimate, 2025: 859,476
counties wholly in this market: 1
counties shared with other markets: 1

County	State	Share here	People counted here	Gasoline gal/day	Diesel gal/day	County population	Miles
San Diego County	CA	100%	3,282,248	3,216,568	728,371	3,282,248	29
Riverside County	CA	22%	547,157	536,916	131,084	2,544,916	101

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: 4.84
¢/gal · line-haul tariff · published: 2.56
¢/gal · carrying cost · calculated: 0.46
¢/gal · pipeline loss · estimate: 0.33
¢/gal · terminaling · estimate: 1.50
days financed: 8.6

Lowest route: from East Hynes on Kinder Morgan SFPP to Mission Valley (Cal PUC No. 160 item 310).

How the lowest adder is worked, line by line

Line	¢/gal	Basis	Source or working
Line-haul tariff	2.558	published	Kinder Morgan SFPP Cal PUC No. 160 item 310: East Hynes → Mission Valley, 107.43 ¢/bbl
Carrying cost	0.456	calculated	$3.260000/gal × 5.9000% ÷ 365 × 8.644 days (1.144 in transit, 2.50 waiting on the cycle, 5.00 in terminal inventory); transit estimated: 110 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	4.839		Sum of the lines above, over the origin spot price

Every published route, lowest adder first (6 of 6). 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
East Hynes	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Mission Valley	Chevron Products Company; Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal; Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	2.56	0.46	0.33	1.50	4.84	8.6	—	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
Watson	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Mission Valley	Chevron Products Company; Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal; Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	2.56	0.46	0.33	1.50	4.84	8.7	0.00	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
East Hynes	Kinder Morgan SFPP	San Diego (Chevron terminal, 2351 E Harbor Dr)	Chevron Products Company; Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal; Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	2.67	0.46	0.33	1.50	4.95	8.6	0.11	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
East Hynes	Kinder Morgan SFPP	San Diego (Tesoro terminal, 2205 E Harbor Dr)	Chevron Products Company; Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal; Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	2.67	0.46	0.33	1.50	4.95	8.6	0.11	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
Watson	Kinder Morgan SFPP	San Diego (Chevron terminal, 2351 E Harbor Dr)	Chevron Products Company; Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal; Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	2.67	0.46	0.33	1.50	4.95	8.7	0.11	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
Watson	Kinder Morgan SFPP	San Diego (Tesoro terminal, 2205 E Harbor Dr)	Chevron Products Company; Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal; Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	2.67	0.46	0.33	1.50	4.95	8.7	0.11	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310

Diesel: product adder

¢/gal · lowest adder: 5.04
¢/gal · line-haul tariff · published: 2.41
¢/gal · carrying cost · calculated: 0.66
¢/gal · pipeline loss · estimate: 0.47
¢/gal · terminaling · estimate: 1.50
days financed: 8.6

Lowest route: from East Hynes on Kinder Morgan SFPP to Miramar Junction (Cal PUC No. 160 item 310).

How the lowest adder is worked, line by line

Line	¢/gal	Basis	Source or working
Line-haul tariff	2.411	published	Kinder Morgan SFPP Cal PUC No. 160 item 310: East Hynes → Miramar Junction, 101.28 ¢/bbl
Carrying cost	0.657	calculated	$4.700000/gal × 5.9000% ÷ 365 × 8.644 days (1.144 in transit, 2.50 waiting on the cycle, 5.00 in terminal inventory); transit estimated: 110 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	5.038		Sum of the lines above, over the origin spot price

Every published route, lowest adder first (8 of 8). 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
East Hynes	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Miramar Junction	Chevron Products Company; Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal; Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	2.41	0.66	0.47	1.50	5.04	8.6	—	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
Watson	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Miramar Junction	Chevron Products Company; Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal; Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	2.41	0.66	0.47	1.50	5.04	8.7	0.00	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
East Hynes	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Mission Valley	Chevron Products Company; Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal; Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	2.56	0.66	0.47	1.50	5.18	8.6	0.15	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
Watson	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Mission Valley	Chevron Products Company; Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal; Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	2.56	0.66	0.47	1.50	5.19	8.7	0.15	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
East Hynes	Kinder Morgan SFPP	San Diego (Chevron terminal, 2351 E Harbor Dr)	Chevron Products Company; Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal; Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	2.67	0.66	0.47	1.50	5.30	8.6	0.26	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
East Hynes	Kinder Morgan SFPP	San Diego (Tesoro terminal, 2205 E Harbor Dr)	Chevron Products Company; Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal; Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	2.67	0.66	0.47	1.50	5.30	8.6	0.26	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
Watson	Kinder Morgan SFPP	San Diego (Chevron terminal, 2351 E Harbor Dr)	Chevron Products Company; Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal; Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	2.67	0.66	0.47	1.50	5.30	8.7	0.26	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
Watson	Kinder Morgan SFPP	San Diego (Tesoro terminal, 2205 E Harbor Dr)	Chevron Products Company; Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal; Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	2.67	0.66	0.47	1.50	5.30	8.7	0.26	Cal PUC No. 160 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 Watson on Kinder Morgan SFPP: 2.56
¢/gal · cheapest diesel · from Watson on Kinder Morgan SFPP: 2.41
¢/gal · cheapest jet fuel · from Watson on Kinder Morgan SFPP: 2.41

Origin	Pipeline	Delivery point	Product	¢/bbl	¢/gal	Refineries at the origin	Tariff
Watson	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Miramar Junction same city (inferred)	distillate, jet fuel	101.28	2.41	Marathon Los Angeles Refinery (Carson Operations; formerly Tesoro Los Angeles Refinery); PBF Energy Torrance Refinery	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
East Hynes	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Miramar Junction same city (inferred)	distillate, jet fuel	101.28	2.41	Valero Wilmington Refinery (formerly Ultramar Wilmington Refinery)	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
Watson	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Mission Valley same city (inferred)	gasoline, distillate, jet fuel	107.43	2.56	Marathon Los Angeles Refinery (Carson Operations; formerly Tesoro Los Angeles Refinery); PBF Energy Torrance Refinery	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
East Hynes	Kinder Morgan SFPP	Mission Valley same city (inferred)	gasoline, distillate, jet fuel	107.43	2.56	Valero Wilmington Refinery (formerly Ultramar Wilmington Refinery)	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
Watson	Kinder Morgan SFPP	San Diego (Chevron terminal, 2351 E Harbor Dr) same city (inferred)	gasoline, distillate, jet fuel	112.16	2.67	Marathon Los Angeles Refinery (Carson Operations; formerly Tesoro Los Angeles Refinery); PBF Energy Torrance Refinery	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
Watson	Kinder Morgan SFPP	San Diego (Tesoro terminal, 2205 E Harbor Dr)	gasoline, distillate, jet fuel	112.16	2.67	Marathon Los Angeles Refinery (Carson Operations; formerly Tesoro Los Angeles Refinery); PBF Energy Torrance Refinery	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
East Hynes	Kinder Morgan SFPP	San Diego (Chevron terminal, 2351 E Harbor Dr) same city (inferred)	gasoline, distillate, jet fuel	112.16	2.67	Valero Wilmington Refinery (formerly Ultramar Wilmington Refinery)	Cal PUC No. 160 item 310
East Hynes	Kinder Morgan SFPP	San Diego (Tesoro terminal, 2205 E Harbor Dr)	gasoline, distillate, jet fuel	112.16	2.67	Valero Wilmington Refinery (formerly Ultramar Wilmington Refinery)	Cal PUC No. 160 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	3	3	Chevron Products Company; Sfpp LP - Missionvalley Terminal; Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC

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: +27.57
¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · highest: +27.57

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 - Missionvalley Terminal	+27.57	rail	Arkalon Ethanol LLC (Liberal, KS)	1,328
Chevron Products Company	+27.57	rail	Arkalon Ethanol LLC (Liberal, KS)	1,334
Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC	+27.57	rail	Arkalon Ethanol LLC (Liberal, KS)	1,334

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

3 operators; the largest, Chevron, runs 33% of the terminals.

Chevron 1 terminal · 33%
Kinder Morgan 1 terminal · 33%
Marathon / MPLX 1 terminal · 33%

Concentration index 3,333 (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.