How Far Are We from Obama's Energy Goal?

Steve Milloy has a nice little chart to show how far we are from the current administration's "clean energy" consumption goal:

http://junkscience.com/2012/02/22/hallucination-obama-wants-80-of-energy-from-clean-sources-by-2035/

Pathetic, Gentle Readers. Most of us could potentially save money by heating with garbage. I burn a bag of garbage (mostly toilet paper to ignite mostly last summer's weedings and prunings) daily, and my heating bill for January was $50. Where it usually is. And I live in the high Blue Ridge Mountains; this year we've not had subzero temperatures, but often we do.

I don't have to pay for garbage disposal service, either; every few months someone with an open-bed pickup truck hauls off a few bags of recycling, and every year or two I've had to dispose of something too nasty to burn for heat.

Don't sit around envying my low utility bills. Get an enclosed stove or furnace and lower your own.

Now, the bad news for some Misty Greens: No, even if everybody started burning garbage, the goal of 35% "clean" energy consumption, nationwide, would not become realistic. And yes, if everybody burned garbage, the chemical balance of our atmosphere probably would be adversely affected. But it would be realistic for a lot of individuals out there to set a goal of 35% lower utility bills.