Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Two excellent questions. First off, you're right that the price of propane traditionally has tracked crude, up until three years ago. Right now the price of propane to the consumer is more akin to the price of natural gas. It's like anything else. If you want to go to your propane supplier and negotiate something a little bit different, I'd encourage you to do that. That's number one. And you can actually see it, at the gate: the price at the gate now is a whole lot less than it ever was.
As for rail cars, and being able to ship propane via pipeline versus other commodities, with our taking away from one and giving to the other—wheat or anything else for that matter—I would say this. If there's an opportunity to move propane or any natural gas liquid via pipeline, that would certainly be welcomed by the industry without any problem at all. The issue is whether or not we have the pipelines in place right now where we want to go, for example, to the Ring of Fire—which we do not. If someone is going to build them, that would be great.
It has already been said that a pipeline is the safest mode of transportation. We would wholeheartedly agree. If we can get more propane, more NGLs, to go via pipeline, that would be wonderful.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.