“Idiots like us buy oil”
                               Christopher Levy, President, Jamaican Broilers Group

"...we’re running an uncontrolled experiment on the only country and planet we have."
                               Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, March 19, 2011

"I was flabbergasted to discover that what we spend on importation of oil can be compared with the amount of money we spend on education here in Barbados and that is a situation that is not satisfactory to us and therefore the issue of renewable energy is a front burner agency item for Barbados."
                               Hon. Freundel Stuart, Prime Minister of Barbados

Sugarcane…, it is hands down the best crop for making ethanol.
                              60 Minutes: The Ethanol Solution, May 7, 2006, Dan Rather.

“There must be more and faster-paced investment in renewable energy by stakeholders… You need to find ways to help us reduce the cost of fuel in our economies. You have to find ways to invest much more than you are doing, and much more quickly in renewable energy… and Government is prepared to lend its support to you”
                               Senator Darcy Boyce, Barbados

The Jamaica Sugar Industry has to evolve into “…a more aggressive movement to a sugar cane based industry with multiple end products including… bagasse translated into energy production … and ethanol production”.
                              2010 Report of the Sugar Industry Enquiry Commission

US$100 billion to be invested in alternative energy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by the year 2020, said the Gulf Arab State’s economy ministry. The UAE is the 3rd largest exported of oil in the world, currently producing about 2.5 million barrels a day.
                            Sources: Reuters, July 12th, 2011,
                                           SaudiGazette, July 14th, 2011, and
                                           TradeArabia, July 15th, 2011