Given the looming energy crisis, the increasing popularity bio feul, and human blood lust, its sort of hard to believe that it's taken this long for someone to make gas out of dead animals. This German inventor has been making batches of bio diesel out of, among other things, road kill cats (oh yes the irony is not lost on me).

Although I can't imagine it would ever be very efficient to husband animals for fuel (uh, wait, did I just say that?), if we, as humans, were ever able to move beyond the mental sophistication of pond scum, I think we could probably power a lot more than cars with all of the dead humans, especially considering the impending population explosion. OR, with no need to move beyond pond scum AND taking advantage of our blood lust, maybe we can fuel our roving armies by just rolling over the slaughtered. Man, wouldn't THAT be efficient. I can just imagine future humvees outfitted with inverse cattle catchers that just suck up the bodies as they plow through the battle fields. Now that's what I call progress.

UPDATE: Story apparently misreported! If you're read the above link, you can see that the original story on cnn.com has been replaced an updated one that says that the inventor denies that he actually made fuel out of dead animals, although he admits that he could. Apparently there was a huge backlash from so-called "animal rights activists" who condemed this guy for what they assumed would lead to mass animal slaughter. I don't get people. Anyway, just cause someone hasn't done it yet, doesn't mean they can't, or shouldn't, or won't. My points still hold.