31.   As anxious Americans saw gasoline and heating oil prices zoom, they cut back on purchases of goods and services.

32.   As heating oil inventories have improved in the last two weeks, crude oil prices have fallen.

33.   As long as the main oil-producing nations continue to restrict their output, gasoline and heating oil prices are likely to continue rising, analysts say.

34.   As a result, the BCS has blamed for everything from the drop in the stock market to the high price of heating oil.

35.   As a result, traders expect reserves of heating oil and other distillate fuels will bulge in the weeks ahead.

36.   As refineries try to keep up with this demand, they have little incentive to shift production toward heating oil, analysts said.

37.   As the quarter ended, the price had dropped, although the American Petroleum Institute said U.S. refiners were making little headway in storing heating oil for the winter.

38.   As the wicked weather blasted into its fourth day, fuel companies scrambled to keep up with deliveries of heating oil.

39.   At the same time, surging heating oil prices threaten to stymie a big drop in pump prices.

40.   At the same time, supply is being squeezed because diesel fuel is being converted to home heating oil as cooler weather arrives.