31.   Large industrial users of electricity have gotten into the act too.

32.   Last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted the company a license to sell power directly to utilities and other big industrial users.

33.   Now, some major industrial users such as electronics companies, jewelry makers and coin minters are taking advantage of the drop to secure supplies, traders said.

34.   On the buying side, utilities, big industrial users and a new group of electricity retailers will compete for supplies.

35.   Pemex last month allowed industrial users to begin buying natural gas from U.S. producers.

36.   Shell and Mobil are actively seeking markets for gas from the Camisea field, which will require laying a pipeline across the Andes Mountains to key industrial users.

37.   Silver prices surged amid concern industrial users such as photographic film makers, are drawing down exchange stockpiles.

38.   Since then, though, many states have come under pressure mostly from large industrial users and companies that want to market power to give customers a choice.

39.   Should oil prices drop, some industrial users would switch to other fuels.

40.   That means industrial users like poultry producer Tyson Foods Inc. and corn processor Archer Daniels Midland Co. will continue to be squeezed by high costs.