We would see our energy costs skyrocket. He says the price increases are especially challenging in an era when the district is trying to increase achievement by keeping buildings open longer for tutoring and other after-school programs. Craig Cook, the chief operating officer of the Denver School District, indicated that his district would take measures such as increasing class size and eliminating high school bus transportation to make up the shortfall. Price hikes are taking affect throughout the country. In Wisconsin and Iowa natural gas prices are up 100 percent relative to January 2000.
Natural gas is the preferred mode of home heating in the Midwestern states.
In the Chicago area, protests by consumers took place in front of the Waukegan Public Library on January 6. We shouldn't be caught in this situation. Seventy-six percent of homes in Illinois are heated with natural gas. Other states affected are Utah and Indiana. The latest utility crisis has little to do with low supplies of natural gas or electricity.