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Ladies and Gentlemen Allow Me to Introduce the Cat Car

Kelmar writes "CNN is running a story about how a German inventor has found a way to power a car using dead cats. Yes you read that right. According to the inventor he can produce the biodiesel fuel at the cost of about $0.30 (US) per liter. Needless to say many animal rights activists are upset by this development, and some are saying that it is illegal to use animals for this purpose in Germany."

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  1. Other pet-based products by gbulmash · · Score: 5, Funny
    How about fuel from dog farts? I know a Labrador Retriever who could probably fuel a moped with his daily output.

    - Greg

  2. Time to bring out a new Jag by funkdancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    That nice purring sound of the engine is strictly no coincidence.

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    1. Re:Time to bring out a new Jag by kalayq · · Score: 5, Funny

      I call it the Catapult.

  3. Every time you masturbate... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Everytime you masturbate, God kills a kitten."
    Woohoo! We can now masturbate AND power our car with the results!
    *grabs a box of tissues*

  4. Anyone remember the Esso advert... by pandrijeczko · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...about "putting a tiger in your tank"???

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  5. How about "Petrel"? Or "Vin Diesel"? by Elphin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Petrol Direct are the answer to the UK's rising fuel prices - cheap fuel by post, with innovative biofuel products too.

    Check out Petrel(TM) a fuel source made from a mixture of seabird guano, combined with the rendered down, fermented and then distilled corpses of a variety of common gulls, albatrosses and terns.

    And "Vin Diesel" - Made from the foulest and most undrinkable European wines

    Marvellous.

  6. Re:Inventor misquoted? by jawtheshark · · Score: 5, Funny
    dead chicken leftovers

    Now I'm curious what a "live chicken leftover" looks like ;-)

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  7. Re:Finally! by mrogers · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a little-known fact that Schrödinger's famous thought experiment concerning a cat was actually carried out, using grad students (they're cheaper than cats). He locked them in a tiny box where they were either awarded funding, or not, but he didn't know which until he opened the box three years later and they were all dead. The experiment is regularly repeated in science departments around the world.

  8. Re:Inventor misquoted? by indifferent+children · · Score: 5, Funny

    McNuggets

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  9. License Plates by dsginter · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet the inventor has a vanity license plate on his car that reads:

    I8URCAT

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    1. Re:License Plates by foniksonik · · Score: 5, Funny

      If it was me I'd rather have the plate:

      I8URPSY

      just a personal preference...

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  10. Re:Inventor misquoted? by blake3737 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Calista Flockhart