by Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009).

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There is a new automobile on the market, or soon to be, that will travel down the road with urine as part of its fuel or exhaust package. That’s right, tinkle. The major problem the developer has experienced thus far is that the wheels are constantly wet from the packs of male canines that gather around the vehicle to mark their spots. Each canine seems certain, due to the vehicle’s odor, in their belief that the vehicle is a giant whizzing dog.

The fuel has a component which includes pure urea and it has been used in diesel fueled vehicles in Europe and other areas of the world. Actually, the urea and other compounds making up the substance is not added to fuel … it is injected into the exhaust pipe to neutralize the harmful noxious substance, oxides of nitrogen (NOx), that accumulate after combustion in the vehicle’s engine.

Some Europeans have been arrested for animal cruelty after it was discovered that they were using cats to squirt into tubes which carried the “squirt” into the exhaust pipes. Primative to say the least, but humans will do most anything to save a Euro during these times. In actuality the cats are not terribly harmed from their proximity to the exhaust pipes and mufflers, one might compare the situation to  ”a cat on a hot tin roof.”

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