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Fuel Margin Calculator
Fuel margin — the cents-per-gallon spread between your all-in fuel cost and street price — is the core unit economic of fuel retail. Enter your street price, rack cost, freight, taxes, and card fees to see gross and net margin, breakeven pump price, and annual fuel gross profit.
Fuel Margin Calculator
All-in cents-per-gallon margin including freight, taxes, and credit card fees.
Pricing
Pump price, taxes included.
Supplier rack or DTW price per gallon.
Taxes & Card Fees
Combined federal, state, and local excise per gallon.
Interchange plus processing on card sales.
Volume
Net Margin
19.17¢
25.10¢ gross before 5.93¢ of card fees
$2.839
$2.895
1,200,000
$19,167
$230,006
$12,000 / yr
How it works
Net margin is street price minus rack cost, freight, and excise taxes, less credit card fees — which scale with pump price, not with your margin. Small per-gallon changes compound dramatically at volume: one cent of margin on a million-gallon site is $10,000 a year.
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