Mr. Chairman, the portion we see directly is the impact that price increases have had on communities where we actually provide the services. We also see the impact on our own department from the increases in cost to operate buildings that we have the responsibility for, or the increased costs to leases that we manage.
At this point, there has not been a large impact to date on the government facilities in the communities. Our fuel resupplies were completed last summer, for the most part. That was prior to the major increases that have taken place recently. We have just completed the winter road resupply. That is a portion of the total fuel volume we supply, but it is not the bulk of it.
We certainly incurred some increased costs on that. Eventually, we will have to include that within the pricing structure. That will be passed on to consumers, a large number of whom, particularly in the small communities, are government departments. Those increases will be somewhere down the line.
At this point, we are not sure what the impact will be when we move into the resupply season again this coming summer. There has been a bit of relief in the pricing in the last few days, as production cores have been increased. Obviously, we are hopeful that will have a larger impact as we get closer to the resupply season this summer, but it is hard to predict what that will be.
With respect to our own operations, the facilities that we operate and buy fuel for and the facilities that we lease, we have not seen a major impact to date. There has been some increase over the course of the winter. That has been manageable within our existing budgetary resources. What the impact is going to be when we get to the next full winter season, will largely depend upon what the fuel pricing looks like at the time. We are still to some extent in a wait and see mode as to what the larger impact is going to be.