YOU TOO CAN USE 300% RENEWABLE ENERGY: Major companies are claiming that they are now using 100 percent renewable energy. Yet, only 15 percent of US power is renewable. have they built their own wind farms? No, they’re relying on a government-designed accounting trick. And like most accounting tricks, it’s easy to spot when things are awry:
[M]ajor department store Kohl’s managed to clock in at 115%. (!?!) But that’s nothing compared to Netflix, who used 298% renewable resources and Ikea managed 310%. That’s right. Ikea is listed as having consumed renewable energy at a rate more than three times the total amount of energy they actually consumed. It’s a Festivus miracle!
And in the annals of efficient government, we should tip the hat to Washington DC, which (of course) gets 122% of the power it uses from renewable sources.