[Biodiesel In Utah] Gauging Real Interest of WVO need/use in SL County

[Patrick]

I'm interested in WVO for a kit that I'd put on my car.  I'd gladly pay
upto  $0.75 - $0.80 per gallon for fully rendered, no water quality WVO.


On 11/13/06, Andre Shoumatoff <andre at utahbiodiesel.org> wrote:
>
>  I wanted to report that I have been having discussions with Renegade Oil
> including an excellent meeting we had last week up here in Heber City
> including a tour of our brewing facility, to come up with a possible
> solution to the "grease problem" in Salt Lake County.
>
> The proposed partnership would be a tank (1000 gallons most likely) of WVO
> placed somewhere in Salt Lake City (I am currently exploring options - I do
> have some possibles already).  The oil would be available from a wide
> diameter spiget to anyone interested.  It would be fully rendered, no water,
> would be high quality that will titrate low, and be filtered to at least
> 1/4" as part of the agreement.  Currently estimated cost would be about
> ~$.85 a gallon to biodieselers (keep in mind they get are currently getting
> $1.28 on the market - so this would be a compromise for them).
>
> At this point, I am trying to gauge how much real world interest there
> would be to using this grease, and whether it is worth the expense of
> insurance, cost of the tank, etc, that hte biodiesel coop will need to take
> on.
>
> How much are people who are brewing willing to use and would you be
> willing to pay $.85 a gallon or so to buy clean and legal oil?  Most of you
> probably know, the big deal is that collecting WVO in Salt Lake County is
> currently illegal...   Besides that, it takes reasonable infrastructure IMO
> to collect grease and do it well, and it seems that biodieselers are giving
> biodiesel a bad name because many are giving up after a few months, walking
> away from verbal agreements, not picking up barrels when needed, making
> messes, etc.  As Renegade put it, we are "their best salesman."
>
> If you can please post up in response, I am curious to hear if you guy
> think.
>
> Hurtles for us are:
> - Cost of tank, setup, etc.
> - Cost of insurance (re legal for Renegade).
> - Cost of oil.
> - Finding a location for the oil that someone can man.
>
> Hurdles for them:
> - Making sure they can deliver.
> - Legal (this is probably the biggest deal breaker - they have legitimate
> legal concerns about it that would need to be addressed).
>
>
> Best, Andre
>
>
>
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Patrick
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