Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That is a concern of ours as well because, in many ways, there is privatization going on out there right now in that we have contractors at the community level who deliver the fuel and bill the customers. So there is a level that has already occurred over the years because it makes better sense to have a local businessman doing that than to have the government handle it all. When we looked at the privatization of the entire POL division or PPD division, we realized that, in order for this to be a viable business enterprise, a company would need to be able to count on certain volumes in order for them to achieve a reasonable profit margin. We don't anticipate going out at this point with a call for expressions of interest to see what kind of interest we can generate in the business community for this opportunity. We would put it out as a package rather than as 44 separate communities where it might not be possible for a small local entrepreneur to generate the capital that would be needed to buy the tanks and the truck and the inventory. If that individual was a franchise operator associated with a larger company that had the whole contract, they would be in a lot better position to generate the capital they needed to get into the business.

We realize that that is a big concern and we know that unless we make it an attractive high-volume operation, it isn't likely to be of interest to too many people. We don't want to be left in a position where we have bits and pieces left over in the final analysis. We want to be out of the business because we think the private sector is at the point where they are mature enough to handle this at this stage. When we got into this in 1973, there was no one else to do it. That has changed.