Transport committee  I think it's a myth, but it may have stemmed from when trucks are left idling all night. They do that to generate energy for the sleeper cab.

Transport committee  Yes. But it makes no sense to run a bus 24-7.

Transport committee  That's a good question. I think ultimately there will have to be some education. If Magna gets involved with home refuelling, we'll make sure we start educating people. Home refuelling is an area we think about. In order for natural gas vehicles to get going in normal automobile

Transport committee  Propane is a very small constituent of the fossil fuels that are pulled up, so it's not as widely available. If we want to go to broad use, there's simply not enough of it to do that.

Transport committee  Twenty years out is hard to predict. I mean, if you're asking me, I would say that on a per energy basis, natural gas will still be a lot cheaper than gasoline or diesel. That's my personal projection, but I'm not an oil industry expert. But what I do know is that we have an enor

Transport committee  Sure. The answer is that diesel and hybrid and natural gas all cost more to make, so the car companies are passing the costs on to the customer with the hope that the customer can connect the fuel savings with the on-costs. The numbers are significant. There's not a good way to a

Transport committee  What I would say is that the solutions for all of our fuel challenges are going to be many. Certainly a downsized gasoline engine and some compromises, such as maybe a downsized car, is probably the most economical or quick and easy-to-absorb solution today, because your capital

Transport committee  When you buy 40 litres, it won't actually be 40 litres. Let's talk about equivalent litres—the equivalent amount of energy in natural gas. Last year we checked the price at the pumps in Toronto, and it was 69¢ per litre. If you multiply that by 40, that gives you your price at

Transport committee  That's a good point. It's temporary but it's practical, because in the interim before we have solutions that can be broadly applied.... It's going to be probably a long time. It's indeterminate. Even if we get the cost of batteries down to where they need to be for pure EVs, they

Transport committee  If I can say so, there are lots of other sources of natural gas. In the ocean, there's frozen methane pockets and that sort of thing that probably would provide many tens of years of additional supply if we were to tap into it. These are things that we have to look to in the futu

Transport committee  Sure it could, yes. The potential going forward is that it's almost a certainty that oil is going to continue to go up in price to the extent that the economy can tolerate it and absorb the new prices. We've made huge strides in natural gas over the last decade or so with the cos

Transport committee  That is probably correct. If you wanted to look at it as having to move to pure electric cars, I don't think we're going to get there on an economic basis. But you could look at the natural gas as part of the mix, because it certainly is better than diesel or gas by 20% or 25%.

Transport committee  That's correct, we would have to do some very severe things to get to a 75% reduction. I think in Canada we have a pretty good energy mix with regard to electricity generation, so we would significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions by movement to pure electric vehicles. The ch

Transport committee  I think liquid natural gas could make sense for larger vehicles—trains, ships, and trucking. You have to manage it, really, because one of the challenges when you go to liquid is that you have to cool it down to extreme cold temperatures. So in a car, if you can imagine, you driv

Transport committee  It is. We were at 40 years of known reserves about 12 to 15 years ago. With the fracking and the shale gas, it's gone up an awful lot without really finding a lot more gas.