Rack market

Tacoma, WA

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

OPIS rack city 977 Gasoline & diesel Renewable diesel Aviation gasoline Biodiesel Ethanol

terminals: 4
pipeline systems delivering: 2
refineries confirmed: 0
more per research or by route: 4
people in the trade area: 2,071,453
gal/day gasoline · estimated demand: 1,508,127
gal/day diesel · estimated demand: 398,809

Terminals in this market

Terminal	TCN	Location	Delivered by
Nustar Energy - Shore Terminal	T-91-WA-4415	Tacoma, WA	Olympic Pipeline, Coastal Marine
Phillips 66 Pipeline Tacoma Terminal	T-91-WA-4413	Tacoma, WA	Olympic Pipeline, Coastal Marine
Targa Sound Terminal	T-91-WA-4414	Tacoma, WA	Olympic Pipeline, Coastal Marine
U.s. Oil & Refining Company	T-91-WA-4421	Tacoma, WA	Olympic Pipeline, Coastal Marine

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
Coastal Marine	4	4	0	1
Olympic Pipeline	4	1	0	4

Refineries that can supply this market

Refinery	Location	Via	Link
BP Cherry Point Refinery	Ferndale, WA	Olympic Pipeline	per research
HF Sinclair Puget Sound Refinery	Anacortes, WA	Olympic Pipeline, Coastal Marine	per research
Marathon Anacortes Refinery	Anacortes, WA	Olympic Pipeline	per research
Phillips 66 Ferndale Refinery	Ferndale, WA	Olympic Pipeline	per research

Trade area

people in the trade area · 2025 estimate: 2,071,453
rank of 422 rack markets by people: #34
gallons of gasoline a day · estimate, 2025: 1,508,127
gallons of diesel a day · estimate, 2025: 398,809
counties wholly in this market: 0
counties shared with other markets: 15

County	State	Share here	People counted here	Gasoline gal/day	Diesel gal/day	County population	Miles
King County	WA	30%	699,261	474,549	117,482	2,344,939	32
Pierce County	WA	71%	668,458	463,431	113,901	946,288	19
Thurston County	WA	67%	203,338	161,606	44,232	304,261	30
Snohomish County	WA	20%	178,049	116,808	32,302	870,656	62
Kitsap County	WA	26%	73,592	46,936	11,063	283,374	28
Yakima County	WA	26%	67,647	52,239	14,670	259,185	97
Grays Harbor County	WA	52%	40,299	39,327	10,418	78,144	67
Mason County	WA	53%	37,632	27,016	7,430	71,165	36
Lewis County	WA	36%	31,394	38,340	13,414	88,062	47
Chelan County	WA	24%	19,740	16,970	4,745	81,941	93
Clallam County	WA	24%	18,941	14,680	4,068	78,202	90
Kittitas County	WA	33%	16,022	37,869	19,767	48,803	82
Jefferson County	WA	31%	10,480	11,820	3,430	33,970	64
Pacific County	WA	24%	5,741	5,806	1,645	24,357	81
Wahkiakum County	WA	18%	861	731	243	4,873	81

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: 3.29
¢/gal · line-haul tariff · published: 1.01
¢/gal · carrying cost · calculated: 0.45
¢/gal · pipeline loss · estimate: 0.33
¢/gal · terminaling · estimate: 1.50
days financed: 8.5

Lowest route: from Bayview, Skagit County on Olympic Pipeline to Tacoma, Pierce County (WUTC No. 57 item Route 07).

How the lowest adder is worked, line by line

Line	¢/gal	Basis	Source or working
Line-haul tariff	1.015	published	Olympic Pipeline WUTC No. 57 item Route 07: Bayview, Skagit County → Tacoma, Pierce County, 42.62 ¢/bbl
Carrying cost	0.449	calculated	$3.260000/gal × 5.9000% ÷ 365 × 8.514 days (1.014 in transit, 2.50 waiting on the cycle, 5.00 in terminal inventory); transit estimated: 97 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	3.289		Sum of the lines above, over the origin spot price

Every published route, lowest adder first (4 of 4). 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
Bayview, Skagit County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County only point in the city	4 terminals	1.01	0.45	0.33	1.50	3.29	8.5	—	WUTC No. 57 item Route 07 effective 2024: check for a newer filing
Anacortes, Skagit County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County only point in the city	4 terminals	1.52	0.45	0.33	1.50	3.80	8.5	0.51	WUTC No. 57 item Route 07 effective 2024: check for a newer filing
Ferndale, Whatcom County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County only point in the city	4 terminals	1.79	0.46	0.33	1.50	4.08	8.8	0.79	WUTC No. 57 item Route 07 effective 2024: check for a newer filing
Cherry Point, Whatcom County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County only point in the city	4 terminals	1.85	0.47	0.33	1.50	4.15	8.9	0.86	WUTC No. 57 item Route 07 effective 2024: check for a newer filing

Diesel: product adder

¢/gal · lowest adder: 3.70
¢/gal · line-haul tariff · published: 1.01
¢/gal · carrying cost · calculated: 0.69
¢/gal · pipeline loss · estimate: 0.50
¢/gal · terminaling · estimate: 1.50
days financed: 8.5

Lowest route: from Bayview, Skagit County on Olympic Pipeline to Tacoma, Pierce County (WUTC No. 57 item Route 07).

How the lowest adder is worked, line by line

Line	¢/gal	Basis	Source or working
Line-haul tariff	1.015	published	Olympic Pipeline WUTC No. 57 item Route 07: Bayview, Skagit County → Tacoma, Pierce County, 42.62 ¢/bbl
Carrying cost	0.688	calculated	$5.000000/gal × 5.9000% ÷ 365 × 8.514 days (1.014 in transit, 2.50 waiting on the cycle, 5.00 in terminal inventory); transit estimated: 97 pipeline miles at 4.0 mph (general estimate)
Pipeline loss	0.500	estimate	flat estimate $0.0050/gal, applied 1 time
Terminaling	1.500	estimate	Flat estimate: no fee on file for this terminal
Product adder	3.703		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
Bayview, Skagit County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County only point in the city	4 terminals	1.01	0.69	0.50	1.50	3.70	8.5	—	WUTC No. 57 item Route 07 effective 2024: check for a newer filing
Anacortes, Skagit County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County only point in the city	4 terminals	1.52	0.69	0.50	1.50	4.21	8.5	0.51	WUTC No. 57 item Route 07 effective 2024: check for a newer filing
Ferndale, Whatcom County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County only point in the city	4 terminals	1.79	0.71	0.50	1.50	4.51	8.8	0.80	WUTC No. 57 item Route 07 effective 2024: check for a newer filing
Cherry Point, Whatcom County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County only point in the city	4 terminals	1.85	0.72	0.50	1.50	4.57	8.9	0.87	WUTC No. 57 item Route 07 effective 2024: check for a newer filing

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 ULSD_DIESEL_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 Bayview, Skagit County on Olympic Pipeline: 1.02
¢/gal · cheapest diesel · from Bayview, Skagit County on Olympic Pipeline: 1.02

Origin	Pipeline	Delivery point	Product	¢/bbl	¢/gal	Refineries at the origin	Tariff
Bayview, Skagit County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County same city (inferred)	gasoline, distillate	42.62	1.02		WUTC No. 57 item Route 07
Bayview, Skagit County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County same city (inferred)	gasoline, distillate	50.98	1.21		WUTC No. 57 item Route 07
Anacortes, Skagit County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County same city (inferred)	gasoline, distillate	63.95	1.52	HF Sinclair Puget Sound Refinery; Marathon Anacortes Refinery	WUTC No. 57 item Route 07
Anacortes, Skagit County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County same city (inferred)	gasoline, distillate	72.32	1.72	HF Sinclair Puget Sound Refinery; Marathon Anacortes Refinery	WUTC No. 57 item Route 07
Ferndale, Whatcom County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County same city (inferred)	gasoline, distillate	75.35	1.79	Phillips 66 Ferndale Refinery	WUTC No. 57 item Route 07
Cherry Point, Whatcom County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County same city (inferred)	gasoline, distillate	77.81	1.85	BP Cherry Point Refinery	WUTC No. 57 item Route 07
Ferndale, Whatcom County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County same city (inferred)	gasoline, distillate	83.62	1.99	Phillips 66 Ferndale Refinery	WUTC No. 57 item Route 07
Cherry Point, Whatcom County	Olympic Pipeline	Tacoma, Pierce County same city (inferred)	gasoline, distillate	86.16	2.05	BP Cherry Point Refinery	WUTC No. 57 item Route 07

Supply resilience

pipeline supply: Limited
pipeline systems delivering: 2
terminals on two or more pipelines: 4
terminals with no pipeline tariff: 0

Two pipeline systems deliver here: one can cover for the other where a terminal is on both.

If a pipeline system goes down

Pipeline system	Terminals it reaches here	With no other pipeline	Which
Coastal Marine	4	0
Olympic Pipeline	4	0

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: +24.63
¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · highest: +24.63

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
U.s. Oil & Refining Company	+24.63	rail	Arkalon Ethanol LLC (Liberal, KS)	1,785
Nustar Energy - Shore Terminal	+24.63	rail	Arkalon Ethanol LLC (Liberal, KS)	1,787
Phillips 66 Pipeline Tacoma Terminal	+24.63	rail	Arkalon Ethanol LLC (Liberal, KS)	1,787
Targa Sound Terminal	+24.63	rail	Arkalon Ethanol LLC (Liberal, KS)	1,785

Nearby rack markets

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

Rack market	Miles	Terminals	Pipelines
Seattle, WA	18	6	2

Around the market

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Pump prices nearby

$5.424 Regular gasoline · Washington · -0.5% on the week · +21.9% on the year

$7.229 Diesel · PADD 5 · -1.7% on the week · +59.5% on the year

EIA weekly retail survey, week of 2026-10-05: 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

4 operators; the largest, Sunoco / Energy Transfer, runs 25% of the terminals.

Sunoco / Energy Transfer 1 terminal · 25%
Phillips 66 1 terminal · 25%
Targa Sound Terminal 1 terminal · 25%
U.s. Oil & Refining 1 terminal · 25%

Concentration index 2,500 (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 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.