31.   A presummer heat wave hit Southern California hard Monday, forcing rolling blackouts and hinting of things to come in the worsening energy crisis.

32.   A proponent of fiscal conservatism, he spoke out on a variety of topics, ranging from the energy crisis to the federal budget deficit.

33.   A. With the California energy crisis, energy became a leader.

34.   After the ceremony, Davis held a press conference largely devoted to pending solutions to the energy crisis.

35.   Brazilians were first told that they faced an energy crisis in May, when President Fernando Henrique Cardoso announced that a worsening drought was going to require rationing.

36.   Bush has fired back that his experience in the oil industry would help him deal with energy crises and negotiations with oil producing nations.

37.   Bush may even want to reconsider his cure for the purported energy crisis.

38.   Bush cloaks his designs as a response to national interests, an energy crisis.

39.   But America has not bought into the idea that any of this represents an energy crisis.

40.   But his presidency was crippled by inflation and the energy crisis.