51.   Agencies would be forced to contract with energy service companies to conduct all cost-effective efficiency upgrades, provided financing is available.

52.   Bush has installed a government of, by, and for energy companies, with nary a nod to conservation.

53.   Bush has an MBA from Harvard Business School and ran an energy company and a baseball team.

54.   Bush selected two people for the panel who were favored by Enron and some other energy companies.

55.   Burlington and other energy companies want to do similar operations in Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas and Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida.

56.   Bush and his top aides repeatedly attributed high prices to regulatory and environmental barriers that they said made it difficult for energy companies to serve the market properly.

57.   Bush has long questioned the science pointing to human-caused global warming and was heavily lobbied by energy companies to reject it outright.

58.   Bush has proposed increasing oil supplies by allowing energy companies to drill in parts of Alaska that the Clinton administration wants to keep environmentally protected.

59.   But at least one, Apache Corp., the energy company, is talking about the talking-while-driving issue.

60.   But because of healthy growth overseas, energy companies would be a little bit of an exception to that.