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Show Thursday, April 20, 2006 DAILY 2 HERALD GS = Biodiesel Gtka cerenewale altogether. Continued from C6 Burgerville the cost of hauling away the grease,but it is expected to eventually bring in additional revenue as biodiesel producers develop a competitive market. “It’s a win-win situation for both the restaurant operator, who now has another viable option for the disposal of old oil, fuel, if we Can get it out of the sewer and get it into the market,” said Nick Arhontes, the engineer who directs regional services for the Southern California agency that already uses biodiesel in its trucks. “It goes beyond restaurants to school cafeterias,jail cafeterias, hospitals — to get them to havetheir fats, oils and greases collected and get them into as well as the general public, who benefit from energy con- some alternative use,” Arhontes said. options,” Riehle said. Used vegetable oil has. been Pacific Biodiesel Inc. in Hawaii, said the company founded 10 servation and energy source Bullfrog Spa Bullfrog Spa is opening a secondcorporate-owned retail outlet « ini Orem onStateStreet. Bullfrog Continued from C6 virtually leak-proof and ener- &y efficient, in Australia, Asia and Europe. “Our two company-owned factory outlets in Bluffdale and Orem are used as tools to train our dealers nationwide andalso gives us the chance to learn the latest retail trends and techniques,” Ludlow said. Bullfrog took over managementof the Orem store after its former dealer, Majestic “Ourtwo ... outlets in Bluffdale and Orem are used as tools to train our dealers nationwide.” David Ludlow CEO,founderBullfrog International the fourth-fastest growing companyin terms of revenues in the MountainWest Capital Waters,.closed last year. The two-worker Orem store, under Bullfrog's management, is expected to rakein millions of dollarsin sales annually. To meetincreased demand locally andglobally, through new partnerships in Europe andAsia, Bullfrog is growing its 33,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Bluffdale to. for Villeroy & Boch, a large German kitchen and bathroom accessories maker, Ludlow said. “Europe will eventually contribute 50 percent of our 81,000 square feet and adding market.” 15 more workersforthe plant. Theplant's expansion, which will more than doubleits production capacity, is expected to be complete by June1. Ludlow cited the growth of its JetPak brand overseas as a factor helping to maintain its 43 percent annual growthrate in the past four years amid a slowdownin the spa industry locally over the past year. In 2002, Bullfrog was named Economy Continued from C6 developmentthat would slow overall economic activity. In the United States,oil prices closed at a record high of $71.35 a barrel on Tuesday. Thus far, the impact ofelevated oil prices on the global economy “has been more moderate than ancere expected,” in part because investors and businesses feel confident that central banks will make sure inflation doesn't get out of control, the IMFindicated. Butlooking ahead there are reasons for concern because spareoil production capacity is still very low — making the market vulnerable to shocks, the IMFsaid. “Indeed, with the recent increase in geopolitical uncertainties in the Middle East, options market data suggest risks are slanted to the upside, with a 15 percentprobability ofoil prices spiking above $80 a barrel by mid 2006,” the IMF report said. Against this backdrop, there's a threat that any further jump in oil prices might push up the prices of other goods and services, fanning inflation. Atthis point, though, the economic outlook for next year is still good, The IMFis forecast- ing the global economy to grow by 4.7 percent in 2007. Dnaou eea CIN a US! &% ARTISTIC BATH & KITCHEN REFINISHING INC. 1-888-707-9297 wwwartisticbathrefinishings.com Refinish Any Tub for $275 Refinish Tub & Tile for $550 HE a either waste or the stuff that restaurants hadto pay to haul off to a rendering company | that could transform it into raw | material for pet food, soaps or cosmetics. Rising fuel prices, however, are pushing a switch to converting the used cooking oil into renewablebiodieselfuel as a routine part of the restaurant business. “Forus it’s a straightforward proposition,” said Jeff Harvey, chief operating officer of The HollandInc., parent company | ofthe chain of 39 Burgerville restaurants. “Wasteoil is the largest byproduct of our business, and “we use that byproduct to make produce about7,500 gallons of | oil a monththat can be turned into 6,400 gallons ofbiodiesel, company officials said. The conversion reduces the need for relying on distant refineries and avoids much of the cost of transport because biodiesel can be produced locally, as other potential biodie- Bullfrog alsolicensed its JetPak technology to a large Australian spa manufacturer for distribution in Asia. The Orem store will showcase eight Bullfrog Spa JetPak models and offer more than six million design options.It also offers SpaGuard, a line of spa sanitizers, oxidizers, balancers, accessories, and aromatherapy products,andgrills with infrared grilling technology. island of Maui, where Robert King had the contract to maintain generatorsat the central ill. He teamed up with University of Idaho researcher Daryl Reece to recycledis- carded cookingoil into biodiesel in order to reduce the impact on the environment Kelly King noted that Hawaii has already reached the goal of providing 2 percentof the total diesel consumption that Luri said could be reached nationally. Nowthe challengeis to find more renewable fuel sources. “We're alreadythere with ute back to local communities,” Burgerville restaurants now in Europe under privatelabel years ago by her husband, Robert King, now converts most of the waste cooking oil collected around the island state. The couple began on the something of value and contribHarvey said. Network's Utah Deal Flow report. Last fall, the company began to market its spa products Kelly King, vice president of sel users and producers have discovered — including Salem, Ore.-based Kettle Foods Inc., which makes potato chips. “We powerthree company vehicles, Volkswagen Beetles, with diesel engines we call ‘biobeetles’ — our ownlittle fleet,” said Jim Green, Kettle Foods spokesman. “We'vegotten real good in reusing our oil and not having as muchwaste,butall of our Many economists believe that a slowing housing market will be a main factor in the expected moderation of economic growthin the United States this year. The IMF,hesaid,is “never shy” about commenting onU.S.fis- has posted record-high home sales for five years in a row — has beenan important contributor to the U.S. economy’s good economic health. Hefty gains in home values also have made some Americans feel more wealthy and thus inclined to spend, which has supported overall economic activity in the United States. cent in 2005,will probably see another hot year, with growth steaming ahead 9.5 percent this year. Next year, China’s economy should expand by 9 GREG WAHL-STEPHENS/Associated Press Used cooking oil is drained from thefryers into oil “dog” or * caddy at a Burgerville Restaurantin SalmonCreek,north of Vancouver, Wash., on March9. The restauranthas a state of the art system for the recycling and pick-up of used cookingoil for biodiesel production. used cookingoil,” King said. “Weneed to come up with anotheroil seed cropfo seriously displacedieselfuel.” Processing used cookingoil into fuel offers a grassroots alternative to producebiodiesel at the neighborhood and even level, using readily waste does go to be processed into biodiesel,” Green said. Carlo Luri, biofuels manager for Bently Agrowdynamics in Minden,Nev., said that each American uses about 10 gallons of cooking oil a year. He ican Petroleum Institute. Lurisaid therealso is an economicincentiveto recycle old cookingoil because it generally is cheaper than “virgin” vegetable oil produced directly from said recaptt In California, the Orange County Sanitation District is takingthe recycling process a step further by recovering grease from sewer systems and traps. But the district wouldlike to develop a system that keeps the grease out of the sewer system half that amount ofoil could trim conventional diesel fuel consumption by 1 percent to 2 percent nationally, along with cutting downon pollution. Diesel fuel accounts for about 24 percent ofoil refinery production nationally, according to the Amer- crops such as soybeans. available equipment such as an old waterheater, said Lyle Rudensey, co-founder of The Breathable Bus Coalition and a memberof the NWBiodiesel Network. Rudensey, also known as “BioLyle,” holds biodiesel workshops in the Seattle area. “Bring your own water heater, and we'll showyouthe plumbing and howit works, hesaid. v0Onnthe Net: Pacific Biodiesel: http:/vww. biodiesel.com cal policy. Elsewherein the World Economic Outlook, the IMFsaid China, which saw its economy The housing market — which grow bya blistering 9.9 per- “The primary risk is of a greater slowing of house price growththan anticipated — we estimatethat the effect of houseprices staying flat, as percent. China's rapidly growing economy, its growing appetite foroil andits trade practices have heightened tensions in the United States. With the U.S.trade deficit with China hitting a record $202 billion last year, the Bush administration is pressing Beijing to take steps— notably revamp- opposed to growing by about 5 ing its currency regime — to percent, could lop onepercent- narrow the gap. Chinese Presiage point off U.S. growth,” dent HuJintao meets President Rajansaid. Bush on Thursday. On fiscal matters, Rajan In other areas, the IMF procalled the Bush administration’s jected growth in the euro zone plan to trim the budgetdeficit to do better this year — climb“both over-optimistic and uning by 2 percent, up from 1.3 ambitious at the sametime.” “percent growth in 2005. Next Hesaid the United States needs year, economicactivity should “revenue-enhancing measures,” clockin at 1.9 percent. suchas tax increases, to help Japan's economy, which close the gap. grew by 2.7 percentin 2005, Tim Adams, the Treasury should expand by 2.8 percent Department’s undersecretary this year. Growth, however, forinternational affairs, dewill moderate to 2.1 percent fended the administration's defi- next year. cit-cutting plan and said a more aggressive approach could put » Onthe Net: IMF:http:/Awww.imf.org the global economyin peril. Dutch Oven Cook-off At Young Living Farms Saturday April 29th Contestants apply on-line at Judging at 1 pm. 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