According to the Dominican Association of Import Warehouses (ASODAI), the Dominican Republic should act fast, adopting measures to lessen the impact of the higher oil prices. The executives of the association sat down with Hoy reporter Aleida Plasencia, and said that the country needed to reduce its dependency on oil products. Domingo Espinal Collado, the president of ASODAI, said that alternate energy sources, such as ethanol (sugar-cane based) have to be pushed. He also supports additional hydroelectric power generation projects. They emphasized also the need to reduce the dependency on the use of private “emergency” which create even more demand for fuels. Espinal Collado also pointed out that the Dominican Republic imports more than half of all the oil imported by the nations that are signatories of the DR-CAFTA agreement, and this obviously reduces the capacity to compete within a free marketplace. The group urged governmental agencies to concentrate on more structural changes in order to reduce the nation’s oil dependency.