Business Segments - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010	Dec. 31, 2009
Segment Reporting Disclosure [Line Items]
Excise taxes collected on petroleum products and remitted to various government entities	$ 3,566,876,000	$ 3,375,509,000	$ 3,595,238,000
Discontinued Operations
Segment Reporting Disclosure [Line Items]
Segment income (loss)	$ 131,800,000	$ 18,500,000	$ 123,800,000
U.S. refineries and associated marketing assets sold	2
Customer Concentration Revenue
Segment Reporting Disclosure [Line Items]
Percentage of revenues	The Company had no single customer from which it derived more than 10% of its revenues.

Disclosure of the extent of enterprise reliance on its major customers. For example, includes revenues from transactions with a single external customer amounting to 10 percent or more of the entity's revenues, the total amount of revenues from each such customer, and the identity of the segment or segments reporting the revenues. A group of entities that the entity knows to be under common control generally will be considered a single customer for inclusion in this item. The federal government, a state government, a local government (for example, a county or municipality), or a foreign government each will generally be considered as a single customer for inclusion in this item.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS)

-Number 131

-Paragraph 39

-LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. This reference is included to help users transition from the previous accounting hierarchy and will be removed from future versions of this taxonomy.

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