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Income Taxes (Details) (USD $)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Mar. 31, 2014
Income Taxes [Line Items]    
Unrecognized tax benefits $ 58,700,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits  
Unrecognized tax benefits which, if recognized, would impact the company's effective tax rate 27,700,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsThatWouldImpactEffectiveTaxRate  
Unrecognized tax benefits related to state tax credits 16,700,000cvi_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsStateTaxCredits  
Accrued interest 7,400,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsInterestOnIncomeTaxesAccrued  
Effective tax rate (as a percent) 22.10%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateContinuingOperations 24.50%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateContinuingOperations
Effective tax rate at a combined federal and state income tax rate (as a percent) 39.60%cvi_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationatCombinedFederalStatutoryandStateIncomeTaxRatePercent 39.60%cvi_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationatCombinedFederalStatutoryandStateIncomeTaxRatePercent
AEPC    
Income Taxes [Line Items]    
Due from parent 9,000,000us-gaap_DueFromRelatedParties
/ us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionsByRelatedPartyAxis
= cvi_AmericanEntertainmentPropertiesCorpMember
 
Federal taxes paid to AEPC under the Tax Allocation Agreement $ 0us-gaap_IncomeTaxesPaid
/ us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionsByRelatedPartyAxis
= cvi_AmericanEntertainmentPropertiesCorpMember
0us-gaap_IncomeTaxesPaid
/ us-gaap_RelatedPartyTransactionsByRelatedPartyAxis
= cvi_AmericanEntertainmentPropertiesCorpMember