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Organization consolidation and presentation of financial statements.

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Percentage investment held by the managing member or general partner of the limited liability company (LLC) or limited partnership (LP).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 272
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6373374&loc=d3e70478-108055

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Percentage investment held by members or limited partners of limited liability company (LLC) or limited partnership (LP).

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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The number of states the entity operates in as of the balance sheet date.

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Represents the number of stores.

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Organization and Principles of Consolidation - Additional Information (Details) $ in Billions	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2018 state store segment	Apr. 02, 2018 store	Jan. 23, 2018 USD ($)	Jan. 18, 2017 store
Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Line Items]
Number of Stores \| store	47			97
Percentage of membership interest acquired	100.00%
Number of operating segments \| segment	2
Sunoco LLC [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Line Items]
Number of states in which entity operates (more than) \| state	30
Motor Fuels [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Line Items]
Number of states in which entity operates (more than) \| state	30
Energy Transfer Partners Limited Partnership [Member]
Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Line Items]
Limited Liability Company or Limited Partnership, Members or Limited Partners, Ownership Interest	2.30%
ETE [Member]
Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Line Items]
Limited Liability Company or Limited Partnership, Members or Limited Partners, Ownership Interest	26.50%
7-Eleven sales [Member]
Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Line Items]
Business acquisition, total purchase price \| $			$ 3.2
Subsequent Event [Member] \| TEXAS
Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Line Items]
Number of Stores \| store		207