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by admin
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3/16/07 3:42:18 PM
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New Just another non-renewable resource.
Latest figure I read was something like 3M strays in Michigan. That's just about 2M gallons, or about 200K barrels of oil equivalent (42 gallons per barrel, of which about 9.5 gallons are diesel).

Let's say for the sake of argument that the average stray cat population in each state is 3M as well. That gives us a generous estimate of 10M barrels of cat oil (without the gasoline and so on).

Not that big a find.
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Post #278,489
by drewk
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3/16/07 4:00:08 PM
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New Not to mention *catching* the strays
Those numbers are estimates of strays in the wild. I doubt we'd catch even 10% of them easily. "Easily" meaning cheap enough to not blow the financials all to hell.
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     20 cats to the gallon of fuel - (boxley) - (19) - March 16, 2007, 02:22:47 PM EDT
         M'kay - (drewk) - (11) - March 16, 2007, 02:45:23 PM EDT
             I suspect the process isn't limited to cats . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - March 16, 2007, 03:37:09 PM EDT
             Just another non-renewable resource. - (admin) - (1) - March 16, 2007, 03:42:18 PM EDT
                 Not to mention *catching* the strays - (drewk) - March 16, 2007, 04:00:08 PM EDT
             Wait a minute. - (Another Scott) - (6) - March 16, 2007, 03:46:22 PM EDT
                 Try this one - (drewk) - (1) - March 16, 2007, 03:58:44 PM EDT
                     Thanks, Drew and Andrew. Educational! :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - March 16, 2007, 06:57:51 PM EDT
                 According to the Wall Street Journal this week . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - March 16, 2007, 04:01:41 PM EDT
                     Speaking of sugar growers ... - (drewk) - (2) - March 16, 2007, 04:04:37 PM EDT
                         We grow quite a bit of sugar here . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - March 16, 2007, 04:12:04 PM EDT
                             Shell should buy ADM - (drewk) - March 16, 2007, 04:24:21 PM EDT
             Slaughterhouse waste too - (tuberculosis) - March 19, 2007, 11:15:55 PM EDT
         Brings new meaning to "Put a tiger in your tank" :) - (Meerkat) - (5) - March 16, 2007, 08:04:20 PM EDT
             Oh, it's been here in the U.S. off and on . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - March 16, 2007, 08:08:33 PM EDT
                 Correction - (imqwerky) - March 16, 2007, 09:51:45 PM EDT
             Meerkats would work as well! :) - (a6l6e6x) - (2) - March 16, 2007, 10:54:49 PM EDT
                 soylent green its not just for grub anymore! free cremation! -NT - (boxley) - March 16, 2007, 11:07:47 PM EDT
                 Oi! :) -NT - (Meerkat) - March 19, 2007, 06:06:02 AM EDT
         Makes your engine purr? - (ChrisR) - March 18, 2007, 12:58:28 PM EDT

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