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K <br /> I I•Y if. <br /> t <br /> Vl f <br /> , <br /> ._ l,� "� •tis - <br /> 9 + <br /> x � ` <br /> w �4 <br /> .b3' 9 ei,.yf 1 £�..y uy y.✓iy4rrj�; 6 <br /> � z a <br /> a <br /> Record Photo by RICH TURNER <br /> S.F. "Chuck" Royster of Tracy, self-styled San Joaquin County "Tire Baron," stands in front of a landscape of his rubber kingdom. <br /> with million tires? <br /> What to do t <br /> S.F. "Chuck" Royster knows to find a way to dispose of much heat for$4.40. Royster has cut down his <br /> where old tires go to die. them. "We'd deliver Louisiana shredding operation, and the <br /> The self-proclaimed "Tire "1,used to shred the lires and Pacific n ton of tire chips for tires lie like burnt Cheerios in <br /> Baron of San Joaquin County" sell the rubber chips as fuel to $34 a ton and they loved it," he an abandoned granite quarry <br /> has 2 million of the worn wheel- the Louisiana-Pacific Co, in said, on his property,west of MacAr- <br /> coverings. ' And they aren't Antioch," he said. "They'd use But the honeymoon was over thur Road,near Tracy Airport. <br /> going anywhere. the shredded tires as a fuel when the Bay Area Air Quality "We all have a problem with <br /> Royster, who moved to additive that the plant could Resources Board ordered Lodi- tire disposal," he said. "It's not <br /> Tracy from Fremont in May burn along with oil as an liana-Pacific to stop burning just a problem unique to San <br /> 1983, has more rubber energy source which was much the tire chips because of the Joaquin County. It's a problem <br /> doughnuts than he knows what less expensive." resultant air pollution. that every county in every <br /> to do with. His market for the The tire chips could deliver a state in the United States has. <br /> tires dried up in December million BTUs of heat for about "I lost my market,' the real <br /> 1983, and he's been struggling $1.27,while oil could produce as estate developer said. (Please see TIRES,Page 5) <br />