11.   Utilities that provide gas for heating can routinely pass their fuel costs on to customers, which in recent months has resulted in skyrocketing home- heating bills.

12.   Yet another cold front is slamming into the Midwest, threatening to shove already-high home heating bills even higher.

13.   Bush said he would not order the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions, because he does not want to increase energy costs, with winter heating bills already soaring.

14.   But he expressed concern that the state assistance funds will run dry in the weeks ahead as families begin getting their January and February heating bills.

15.   Inefficient windows drive up heating bills.

16.   Natural gas prices have jumped as much as five times what they were last year, driving up heating bills and cutting into business profits.