RT....your description of the changed Barbados' economic structure to one of tourism fits just about every island that I have been to down there.
-property values have increased because of development/tourism and squeezed agriculture off of an already limited amount of island land mass.
-the sugar cane thats left is used to make island rum, (mango is my favorite!) to sell to the tourists and not used to make ethanol. (and then the tourist cry when they are sick and blame it on the water when they are really suffering from alcohol poisoning from partying too much!)

So what you have are island nations that need to either continue to import petrol fuels & crude or import the vegetible components to make BioDiesel and Ethanol. Either way they are still dependent on imports for transportation fuel but I think the BioFuel thing is a cleaner deal.

Man your right....they have so many neat diesel vehicles. Pickups, 4x4s, sedans, small vans....made by Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Isusu, Land Rover.
On Saint Kitts and Nevis....all right-hand drive models.

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