1.   As a result, social sevices agencies are overwhelmed with pleas for help from gas customers.

2.   Decisions on when contracts will be awarded hinge on finding gas customers, Exxon said.

3.   Gas customers can call their local utility for similar services.

4.   Gas customers, by contrast, have to pay whatever their utility charges them.

5.   No retail gas customers will be affected by the interruption of gas supplies from Parker County because of stored stocks at the terminal, Driver said.

6.   She said customers in Southern California are getting off easier than gas customers in other regions.

7.   UtiliCorp recently launched EnergyOne, a nationally branded line of products and services for electric and gas utility customers in the U.S.

8.   With approval of the California Public Utilities Commission, large commercial gas customers would be free to abandon the utility almost immediately.

9.   Wine said higher natural gas prices will affect most gas customers, but poor residents will be particularly hard hit.

10.   Four million gas customers have already switched suppliers or signed up to leave British Gas.