Fuel & Convenience research

US Fuel & Convenience Market Explorer

Explore your fuel and convenience market. See who operates nearby, compare competitive intensity across metros, and put regional prices, taxes and charging into context.

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National market overview

National fuel retail footprint and competitive landscape

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Confirmed fuel sites — Fuel sites corroborated by two public sources or an operator locator

Sites per 10,000 residents — 2020 decennial population; commuter demand is not in the denominator

Sites with a rival within a mile — Straight-line distance to a site of a different parent

Share held by the top three parents — Of sites whose operator is public; a share of sites, not of volume

Sites on a truck corridor — Road within about 650 ft carrying over 5,000 trucks a day

DC fast charge ports per 100 sites — Available public ports; proximity, not substitution

Sites by channel

Channel is read from public names and operator locators. A share of sites is not a share of fuel volume.

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The fast-charging landscape

Fuel retailers appear here as charging operators, not only as the incumbents being substituted.

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Leading networks by DC fast ports

Leading operators · parent groups

Confirmed fuel sites by parent group; share of sites with an identified operator

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Shares use all confirmed sites with an identified operator, including those outside the displayed ranking. Bars are scaled to the largest operator shown. Parent groups describe the published edition; the fuel brand on the canopy may differ. These are site counts, not fuel volume, revenue, or customer market share.

Company perspective

Operator Profile

Explore where a parent group ranks across its published state and metro markets.

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Fuel prices & taxes

Retail fuel benchmarks and federal and state excise taxes

Geography Fuel

Retail price by grade

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Weekly retail, last five years

The tax on a gallon

Federal excise plus the state excise FHWA reports. Volumetric tax only: sales taxes, environmental fees and variable-rate formulas are flagged, not summed.

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Gallons sold in this jurisdiction

Motor fuel use reported by the state tax agencies to the Federal Highway Administration. State grain only: no metro or site figure exists in the source, and none is derivable from it.

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Geographic evidence

Explore the market

Move from the national view to a metro market, then inspect the fuel sites and operator footprint behind it.

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National fuel retail footprint

Confirmed retail fuel sites by state

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Select a state to explore its metro markets.

Each tile represents a state or DC, not its geographic size. Colours show equal ranges of published site counts, not fuel volume or market share. Select a state to open its largest published metro by site count.

Site-level evidence

Sites and charging

Explore published fuel sites and public fast-charging stations.

—Fuel sites matching the selection

—Public fast-charging stations

—Public DC fast ports

Coordinates are the centroid of agreeing public place records, fit for a street-scale map. A point is a fuel site on record, not proof of fuel sales today.

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Competitive set in view

Leading parent groups by confirmed fuel sites in the whole metro

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Top 10 shown initially; expand to see up to 50 published parent groups. Shares use all confirmed sites with an identified operator in the metro. Bars scale to the largest operator shown. Site counts are not fuel volume, revenue or customer market share.

How to read this research

Methodology and limitations

This explorer organizes public evidence for fuel and convenience market screening. Read each measure with its geography, segment and source vintage.

Sources and freshness

Fuel-site evidence combines public place records, operator information and tank registrations. Confirmation measures agreement between public feeds, not completeness against an unknown true universe.

Prices use EIA regional averages, taxes use published excise rates, and public charging uses AFDC records. Sources update on different schedules; the dated published edition is not a real-time feed.

Pricing and comparisons

Retail prices are regional benchmarks for the selected fuel, not quotes at individual stations. Compare like fuels, geographies and dates; a missing observation is not a zero price.

Excise taxes provide a separate benchmark, not a complete breakdown of pump prices or operator costs. Site counts and shares do not measure fuel volumes, revenue, margins or customer market share.

Geography and competition

Metro summaries and local operator rankings describe the whole published metro, including cross-state markets. Segment, provider and overlay selections narrow the detailed map; they do not redefine the whole-metro ranking.

Nearby rivals and charging proximity use straight-line distances, not drive times or evidence of price competition. Channel, corridor and location contexts can overlap.

Coverage and footprint

A fuel site is a location on public record, not every convenience store or proof of fuel sales today. Coordinates summarize agreeing place records; operator identity and public-source coverage can be incomplete.

Charging stations and ports are different measures. A recorded public DC fast-charging footprint does not establish charger uptime, utilization or demand. Individual site decisions also require the operator’s own volumes and margins.