Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have a return to a written question asked by Mr. Krutko on May 29th in regards to grades of fuel in use. The Member for Mackenzie Delta asked for the grade of fuel used by the Department of Transportation's ferries.
Grades of Fuel in Use
The Department of Transportation specifies a P50 grade of diesel fuel for the engines in its ferries.
The P50 fuel is a winter grade of fuel that performs better in below freezing temperatures. Heavier grade summer fuels tend to foul the diesel engine's injector tips and increase maintenance problems at the lower temperatures in which the ferries operate at the beginning and especially at the end of the season.
The department uses only the one winter grade of fuel throughout the operating season so as to avoid the additional expense and downtime of purging fuel tanks in converting from one grade of fuel to another. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.