Alligator Fat, The New Bio-Fuel.

Looking to justify the slaughter of thousands of captive and wild alligators every year, scientists are hard at work trying to develop a way to turn alligator fat into fuel.

Alligator farming is big business. Facilities all over America raise gators in tiny concrete tanks to use their skin for fashion and their teeth presumably for Crocodile Dundee merch. Some of these facilities house over 10,000 gators at any given time. People in the industry are getting tired however of taking the just the skin meat, and teeth while discarding the gator corpse so scientists have a plan, “gator fuel.”

Researchers are currently working to take the estimated 15 million pounds of discarded gator fat and turn it into bio-fuel. They say that it might be possible to turn all that discarded fat into 1.25 million gallons of fuel. Lovely…

Can we just have a damn solar car already?  We could at least go dumpster diving behind liposuction clinics before we start relying on gator fat to power our SUVs.