Seems it’ll only be a matter of time before we’re putting more than one species in our engines. Rather that waiting millions of years, Connecticut-based Green Earth Technologies only will have to wait for approval from the American Petroleum Institute for new automotive applications of its G-Oil, a biodegradable lubricant made from “American grown base oils” — and you can read that to mean animal fat that would typically be discarded by slaughterhouses.

Beef, it’s not just what’s for dinner anymore.