Thank you, Mr. Chair. There are a number of factors that go into the price of fuel. There is the actual wholesale cost of the fuel, which fluctuates throughout the year depending on when we buy it. Diesel fuel, as you will note, in the last year has been fairly volatile; it has been up and down. Gasoline, even, has had some variation, as well. That is one component. The other component is the transportation costs for trucking. Trucking costs are a factor, and if that goes up or goes down, depending on market conditions, that can have a factor to play, as well as our community contractor costs. All of our fuel is dispensed in the communities by private contractors contracted by the fuel services division, and in those cases, when those contracts come up and are renewed, sometimes there is an increase in the costs. That can contribute to the fuel costs even though the other components of the cost may be the same.
There are a number of things that go into what determines the final price of the fuel, and those things vary at different times in the cycle. Thank you, Mr. Chair.