Winds of Change Carry Beefy Aroma

We imagine that this item is something that Portlandist will cover at whatever future date they decide to get their act together and spring into existence, but for the time being it falls to Seattlest to report on developments at a Pacific Northwest burger chain that no one here has ever heard of. Burgerville announced this week that they will soon begin powering all of their restaraunts with renewable wind power. (Before you click on that link we should tell you they're going to need a typhoon to power that obnoxious, flash-heavy web site.)

Burgerville, their parent corp., and their sister food chains will face a 30% markup for the clean energy from Cowlitz County Public Utility's Green Power program.

From the Portland Business Journal:

By using wind power, the company said it will avoid adding 17.4 million pounds of CO2 to the region annually. Eliminating this volume of the harmful greenhouse gas is the equivalent of taking approximately 1,700 cars off the road or reducing the number of miles driven in the region by 19 million, the company added.

Although there has been no announcement on whether or not a wind-generated burger costs a customer more than the fossil fuel variety, Seattlest hopes that the environmentally conscious Pacific Northwest flocks to Burgerville in support of this gesture. Thumbs up, Burgerville. Next step: where does your beef come from? Oh, you already got that covered, eh?

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By Dan in News on August 23, 2005 1:04 PM

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Josh

Burgerville will always occupy a special place in my heart because once when I was fourteen, a very hot 18-year-old employee of a Burgerville in Northeast Portland inexplicably hit on me (she gave me *her* number!). I was, of course, absolutely terrified, but I did manage to call her and meet her at her house (!). When she said, apropos of nothing, that she "just didn't buy this whole evolution thing," that was enough of an excuse for me to cop out on what would surely have been the greatest experience of my young life. What does this actually prove about Burgerville? Nothing. But still, you should go there, especially if you're fourteen, nerdy, and scared shitless of impossibly attractive older women who are dumb.

James Callan

Burgerville is almost worth driving to Centralia for -- that's where the closest location is. Very good fast food burgers and shakes. It would've done well in our best burger series -- on par with Red Mill, better than Dick's or Kidd Valley.

Whenever we drive to Portland, we stop at Burgerville either on the way there or back.