Ben Jervey 
The Chamber of Commerce (long an loud opponent of any rules to protect the public) wants to scare kids about energy regulation. In a "teaching guide" that will go out to roughly 100,000 classrooms, thanks to their witless partners at Scholastic, they suggest this discussion question:
What do you think could happen if one of our energy sources were suddenly unavailable (e.g., power plant maintenance, government curb on production, etc.)?
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