Mr. Chairman, I want to make a point here. Ever since I was elected, I send to into the House that the people in my communities want those contracts tendered so that they would be paying the cheapest price possible for fuel and gas. We have been continuing this process on a month-to-month, six-month to six-month basis, with no opportunity to bring the price down. Therefore, I do not understand the department's move to now extend those contracts without going to tender until 1999.