The closest wholesale heating oil terminal (“rack”) to Foster Fuels is Apex in Greensboro, NC. The distance from the company to the terminal is 23.4 miles more than average for Virginia oil companies.

Terminal accessibility affects the prices that oil companies near you charge. Unless Foster Fuels has on-site storage tanks, Foster Fuels’s trucks need to make multiple daily trips to the rack to purchase oil. At today's average Virginia diesel price of $3.05 per gallon and an average tanker truck fuel economy of 6.2 mi/gal, Foster Fuels's round-trip fuel cost to pick up oil is an estimated $84.09 per trip.