You raise a lot of issues, and important ones. When you look at one-month sales like that, you really have to start looking into the longer trend. Clearly the rebate program, for instance, has shown that yes, for one vehicle in particular, again the one that I was referring to, it has generated huge volume sales increases. It's the same with the E85, obviously. It would generate that. But the perversity comes into the fact that you have other manufacturers who might just be on the other side of the arbitrary threshold that was chosen. Our objections, and they're supported by a great deal of literature out there, show that ultimately these programs do not work, and it's very difficult to either determine or even demonstrate that people actually shift from either a smaller vehicle to a larger vehicle to a smaller vehicle.
What we're saying is when you have basically the on-road fleet accounting for only 12.5% of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada in total and new vehicles accounting for only 1% of that, and feebate programs and any regulation only address the new vehicle market, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If we were able to take this broader integrated approach that we speak about, we could make a great deal more progress without the perversities, without the inequities, without the unfairness that is imposed on manufacturers and ultimately consumers. That's what we're saying here.
While I think the intent may have been to actually generate or create a greater level of visibility on the issue and environmental benefit, I think in the end you will find that won't be the case. You will not be able to attribute any success to the program, particularly when you complicate things by increasing gasoline prices. All of the literature shows and a lot of economists will clearly show you that what really matters here, what really does make a difference, is that people respond to gasoline prices, fuel prices.
We still operate, even despite increases in gasoline in Canada, in a relatively low energy cost environment. Any other countries around the world that have high gasoline prices and so forth clearly have a smaller, more fuel-efficient fleet. All we're saying is we don't think this is the right thing to do. We would like to see it eliminated, and we would like to work with the government on how we can bring forward a more integrated plan that will actually yield greater benefits in terms of transportation and GHG emissions.