Transport committee  I'm going to partly defer to.... We work closely with the Canadian Trucking Alliance, going back to the heavy side of the market here. We very much concur with their view on this, which is that we all understand that this fuel, if we're successful, will attract taxation. It has

Transport committee  That's coming.

Transport committee  The total fuel storage on the vehicle depends on how many tanks it has, or if it's conversion, on how much range the customer wants—

Transport committee  A pickup truck would probably easily have a 300- to 400-kilometre range. Some might go higher and some might be lower.

Transport committee  Regarding fuel consumption, we always talk about the pricing of natural gas on a gasoline litre or diesel litre equivalent. Natural gas and gasoline have very comparable efficiencies in terms of how much fuel is burned in the engine. So if it's 12 litres per 100 kilometres, it wo

Transport committee  I thought you were going to throw a different curve ball at us, around what this will do to the price of fuel.

Transport committee  I wouldn't say that's entirely true. I think in the marine sector, yes, we're seeing that happening, but on the on-road, not so much. What we've seen with increasingly stringent emissions standards is that the OEMs have designed their products to have lower tailpipe emissions. N

Transport committee  Some of the numbers I have seen were a minimum of four litres per hour. But I think that was sort of the bottom end of the range.

Transport committee  There is heavy taxation on crude-oil-based fuels in Europe.

Transport committee  May I jump in on that point for a second? The work I mentioned in the United States, though, is targeting much higher performance parameters in terms of output and then cost per litre dispensed. That does have a significant amount of private sector money behind it, recognizing th

Transport committee  It comes down to how you can measure it. Yes, I take your point on that.

Transport committee  They'll apply to the Great Lakes as of 2015, and it's a 200-mile perimeter on the east and west coasts already. What happens with the big transocean shippers is they have two fuel systems. As soon as they come into that ecozone, they'll switch it over to the cleaner fuel. As soon

Transport committee  It's also a zone like this. No, no, the whole thing. But that's what's coming in the Great Lakes. They will have no options. So for the short sea shippers that stay within that inland water, they will have to either add the scrubber technologies, go to a lower emission fuel, or i

Transport committee  Yes, I'd say very strongly. In terms of working with Transport Canada right now, they recognize.... They did a study a year ago on the alternatives for compliance and what the alternatives were going to cost the shippers. The high-level conclusion on alternative fuels—and they l

Transport committee  As to the infrastructure for trucks on the corridor, this is a truck issue entirely. The bigger issue there, though, is a competitive one for Canada. By the end of this year, there are going to be 72 truck stops with LNG. A year from now, there will be 150. These are already fund