All the stock of a fully operating, fully legal up to date Costa Rican corporation (Atlantis Energy, S.A.) can be bought for only $102,500. The corporation has planted over 4,000 Jatropha trees (sometimes known as "Tempate" locally) whose seeds contain 35 to 40% vegetable oil, that can be turned into biodiesel).  See www.atlantisenergy.co.cr

It comes with a Chief Executive Officer, a former professor at the University of Costa Rica, experienced in optimum agricultural results from the planting of the trees, who interfaces with the Ministry of Agriculture (At their request, they used the corporation's expertise to plant Jatropha trees for them in Puriscal) and also interfaces with farming cooperatives.  It also comes with a Vice President who is a botanist, and a company car.
The first harvest of seeds from trees planted 2 1/2 years ago will be in the middle of 2009.  The corporation has no debt, and no legal problems.
To know more about this ongoing fully functioning alternative energy corporation, please see our website http://www.atlantisenergy.co.cr.
Biodiesel is one of the waves of the future.  A documentary movie called "FUEL" is in the theatres now, and was a winner at the Sundance Film Festival, and it contains a lot about this future solution to the addiction to oil:  http://thefuelfilm.com/blog/2008/11/15/fuel-movie

Sam Butler, President, Atlantis Energy, S.A. samjcr@pobox.com