You are right, and your remark is so exact.
In the meantime, I will tell you what I'm afraid of.
Right now they are going to put a refuelling station in Detroit and one in Syracuse. I know that they are putting one in PA, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Boston. I have the list. I will give it to the clerk after the meeting.
That's only one company. That's only Clean Energy Fuels. Chesapeake Energy is doing the same, and Shell is doing the same with Flying J. Imagine the number with the multiplication. These guys are going to run LNG and come and compete with our industry, while here in Canada we will still be running on fuel before we develop an infrastructure. At the speed we are going today, it will be 2015 before we get something that makes sense.
In the meantime, they would be running 400 to 500 gas stations stateside. With the autonomy they have, they can refuel in Syracuse, come to Montreal, and go back to Syracuse and say, “Bye-bye, love, I took your freight away.” They benefit from the cheaper price.
And the Canadian trucking industry is going to do what? Right now, my trucks can go to the United States. They are EPA-approved, but there is no station as of yet. In a month's time, there is going to be one in Detroit.
Yes, we are going to start to run them. We have started to run one truck in Boston. We are running that truck back and forth to Boston, because I have found a friend there who has trucks on natural gas. He said, “Claude, you can come and fuel whenever you want.” I'm fuelling right in his yard. That is the beauty of it.
Keep something else in mind: all of the natural gas on the eastern seaboard is coming from Russia through méthaniers on LNG. The price of this compared to the price in Canada at the pump is not even 25%. Tomorrow we are going to stop bringing petroleum on boats; we will start to use méthaniers to bring natural gas from somewhere else.
I think we need some time to get together and do something. Electricity is too expensive. The price is too high. This is this, this is that. What are we going to do? Even our water we are going to probably import from Maroc or somewhere. That's just to illustrate how sometimes it can be nonsense.