http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/09/14/germany.catfuel.reut/index.html

Quote directly from CNN article:

"BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A German inventor has angered animal rights activists with his answer to fighting the soaring cost of fuel -- dead cats.

Christian Koch, 55, from the eastern county of Saxony, told Bild newspaper that his organic diesel fuel -- a homemade blend of garbage, run-over cats and other ingredients -- is a proven alternative to normal consumer diesel.

"I drive my normal diesel-powered car with this mixture," Koch said. "I have gone 170,000 km (106,000 miles) without a problem."

The Web site of Koch's firm, "Alphakat GmbH", says his patented "KDV 500" machine can produce what he calls the "bio-diesel" fuel at about 23 euro cents (30 cents) a liter, which is about one-fifth the price at petrol stations now.

Koch said around 20 dead cats added into the mix could help produce enough fuel to fill up a 50-liter (11 gallon) tank.

But the president of the German Society for the Protection of Animals, Wolfgang Apel, said using dead cats for fuel was illegal.

"There's no danger for cats and dogs in Germany because this practice is outlawed in Germany," Apel told Bild on Wednesday in a story entitled "Can you really make fuel out of cats?"

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I can picture a 'Soilent Green' future where when your useful life has ended, in addition to donating your organs to science, your remains are taken to the local bio-fuel company....

Shame on him I love cats I do





















NOT

I'm struggling to find a better use for them myself.

After all they are Bu**er all use for anything else - except digging up and cr*pping in everyone elses garden but their owners, killing small but very attractive and pleasant garden birds, leaving cat hair all over the furniture, making me sneeze......

Rant rant rant.......

Mark

While I have no particular love for cats...... could I use my extensive bug collect in place of the cats? I've got them all over my windscreen!

bugs that is....not cats

Fantastic. I hate cats and we have an infestation of them here. How many miles per cat can you get. Does it make your engine scream like a startled cat? The only good thing about cats is the noise they make if you give them a chinese burn. I'm still looking for a catapult that will fire real cats but mincing them and using them for fuel is almost as good.

WOW!! All you'd then need is a photo/toy of a mouse and a one way flap into your fuel tank/mincer, park your car in alleys, and you'd have the worlds first self-refueling car!!

Liam

Cats > Dogs. Fact.

Do they specifically have to be DEAD?

Good job I'm a Tiger not a cat then

This talk of feline fuel brings one or two queries to mind.

1. Do you need a cat-alytic converter?
2. Will this fuel work in a Locost, MK, Westfield etc, or do you need a ...........
Cat-erham?