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Price Risk Management Activities (Details) bu in Thousands, $ in Millions | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2023 USD ($) MMBTU bu MBbls | Dec. 31, 2022 USD ($) | Dec. 31, 2021 USD ($)
Price Risk Management Activities (Textual) |  |  |  |
Compliance program costs | $ | [1] | $ 123,087 | $ 150,770 | $ 102,714
Costs of Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs [Member] |  |  |  |
Price Risk Management Activities (Textual) |  |  |  |
Compliance program costs | $ |  | $ 1,300 | $ 1,500 | $ 2,100
Derivatives Designated as Economic Hedges [Member] | Futures, 2024 Maturity [Member] | Long (Purchases) [Member] | Crude Oil and Refined Petroleum Products (in thousands of barrels) [Member] |  |  |  |
Volume of Outstanding Contracts |  |  |  |
Nonmonetary notional amount of price risk derivatives, volume |  | 98,244 |  |
Derivatives Designated as Economic Hedges [Member] | Futures, 2024 Maturity [Member] | Long (Purchases) [Member] | Natural Gas (in millions of Btu) [Member] |  |  |  |
Volume of Outstanding Contracts |  |  |  |
Nonmonetary notional amount of price risk derivatives, energy | MMBTU |  | 1,595,000 |  |
Derivatives Designated as Economic Hedges [Member] | Futures, 2024 Maturity [Member] | Long (Purchases) [Member] | Corn (in thousands of bushels) [Member] |  |  |  |
Volume of Outstanding Contracts |  |  |  |
Nonmonetary notional amount of price risk derivatives, volume | bu |  | 47,135 |  |
Derivatives Designated as Economic Hedges [Member] | Futures, 2024 Maturity [Member] | Short (Sales) [Member] | Crude Oil and Refined Petroleum Products (in thousands of barrels) [Member] |  |  |  |
Volume of Outstanding Contracts |  |  |  |
Nonmonetary notional amount of price risk derivatives, volume |  | 94,194 |  |
Derivatives Designated as Economic Hedges [Member] | Futures, 2024 Maturity [Member] | Short (Sales) [Member] | Corn (in thousands of bushels) [Member] |  |  |  |
Volume of Outstanding Contracts |  |  |  |
Nonmonetary notional amount of price risk derivatives, volume | bu |  | 63,660 |  |
Derivatives Designated as Economic Hedges [Member] | Physical Contracts, 2024 Maturity [Member] | Long (Purchases) [Member] | Corn (in thousands of bushels) [Member] |  |  |  |
Volume of Outstanding Contracts |  |  |  |
Nonmonetary notional amount of price risk derivatives, volume | bu |  | 15,679 |  |
Derivatives Designated as Economic Hedges [Member] | Foreign Exchange Contract, US Dollars [Member] |  |  |  |
Price Risk Management Activities (Textual) |  |  |  |
Monetary notional amount of derivative liabilities | $ |  | $ 622 |  |
Cash Flow Hedges [Member] | Derivatives Designated as Hedges [Member] | Futures, 2024 Maturity [Member] | Long (Purchases) [Member] | Refined Petroleum Products (in thousands of barrels) [Member] |  |  |  |
Volume of Outstanding Contracts |  |  |  |
Nonmonetary notional amount of price risk derivatives, volume |  | 1,925 |  |
Cash Flow Hedges [Member] | Derivatives Designated as Hedges [Member] | Futures, 2024 Maturity [Member] | Short (Sales) [Member] | Refined Petroleum Products (in thousands of barrels) [Member] |  |  |  |
Volume of Outstanding Contracts |  |  |  |
Nonmonetary notional amount of price risk derivatives, volume |  | 8,821 |  |
[1] | Cost of materials and other for our Renewable Diesel segment is net of the blender’s tax credit on qualified fuel mixtures of $1.2 billion, $761 million, and $371 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively.

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