21.   Energy traders say gas supplies are stretched, so any forecasts of cold weather will boost prices.

22.   Enron, a once high-flying American energy trader, fell to earth amid questions over its off-balance-sheet debts and murky accounts.

23.   Even if another major energy trader or merchant company collapsed, it would probably not upend the economy, he added.

24.   Energy traders can testify to what happens when already lean inventories meet a sudden increase in demand.

25.   Energy traders say refinery outages and higher crude-oil prices are to blame.

26.   Enron was the largest energy trader in Europe, moving into the market long before most governments had opened their markets.

27.   Federal prosecutors allege Arthur Andersen shredded documents related to its audit of Enron, the Houston-based energy trader that filed the largest U.S. bankruptcy case ever.

28.   Feinstein had tried to push a similar move in April, but was beaten back by opposition from securities-industry lobbyists and energy traders.

29.   He got interested after accounting professionals began questioning the way energy traders recorded some profits.

30.   He was appointed to the board in late October to conduct on internal investigation into transaction that lead to the collapse of the Houston-based energy trader.