71.   Also pushing prices lower, Colonial Pipeline Co. said it would allow shipments of heating oil and other distillate fuels through a pipeline normally reserved for gasoline.

72.   Also, the winter was unusually cold in the U.S. and Europe, raising demand for heating oil.

73.   But Energy Department figures show that US inventories are shrinking even though there was a small rise in the amount of petroleum being refined into heating oil.

74.   But he shied away from assuming state responsibility for assessing or coping with the skyrocketing prices for electricity last summer and for heating oil this winter.

75.   But some analysts warned that uncertainties remained as to whether the sale would bring more heating oil to consumers soon, because refineries were already running at capacity.

76.   But oil import taxes have long been opposed in the Northeast because they would raise the price of home heating oil.

77.   But Pierson also urged consumers to check out their heating oil dealers carefully, since the industry is splintered into many small operations.

78.   But the oil would arrive just as refineries begin to build stocks of heating oil for the winter.

79.   But the bottom line, for consumers, is sharply higher heating oil prices.

80.   But the increase took months to work its way through ports, pipelines and refineries and into inventories of gasoline and heating oil.