Thank you very much.
Mr. Romano, I'm going to go back to you, but before I begin I want to read something here from a study by UC Davis down in California. They did a study regarding the impact of the additional weights on roads. It said:
The damage analysis for an example waste facility access road modeled for only 500- to 2,000-lb. increases in the weights of waste-hauling trucks from conversion to natural gas indicated (a) that for fully loaded inbound trucks, the 500-lb. vehicle weight increase reduced the life of pavement overlays by approximately 5 percent and (b) that there was an approximately 13 percent reduction in life with the 2,000-lb. vehicle weight increase.
The reason I'm asking is that in Saskatchewan there is a tax now on EVs that people are all up in arms about. The reason they are doing that is to make up for the loss of fuel tax. We know the fuel tax is used for road maintenance and upkeep as well.
As we are shifting to EVs—industry is saying we're going this way—we know that there's going to be a disproportionate impact on the infrastructure, yet we're losing all this tax revenue. Who's going to pay for the road maintenance and infrastructure upkeep if we lose that tax base?