The only reason to own a diesel now would be to tow an extremely heavy trailer. The heaviest tow rating for a GM light-duty diesel is 14,000 pounds; the gas motor is 12,000 pounds.

I expect it will cut my truck sales 30 percent. Next January my diesel sales will be 10 percent, then 20 percent in February and sometime by the middle of next summer I will be selling trucks again.

The reason we don't currently do that, or historically have never done that, is the ports are small.

They can't keep them for the same reason they have to make them in the first place. Almost everything they're trying to change is a locked-in habit. The hardest thing to change is our habits.

I was asked to be president of the Halton Peel Canadian Club and I didn't have a reason to say no.

The city has a reasonable plan to pay ... and we have no reason to believe it will not be executed,