61.   The irony of paying higher energy costs is that the company may be kept from investing in a new, energy-efficient furnace, he said.

62.   The plan has also drawn criticism because it applies only to California, not other Western states that are also feeling the pinch of higher energy prices.

63.   The plan also calls for reducing a tax on utility companies that is passed on to consumers in the form of higher energy costs.

64.   The program included tax increases, higher energy prices and significant cuts in government spending.

65.   This results in higher energy bills and can shorten the life of the tank by increasing thermal stresses.

66.   Those higher energy costs are not limited to retailers, of course.

67.   Thus his tax cut was trumpeted as an answer first to an overheating economy, then to a sagging one and finally to higher energy prices.

68.   Union Carbide also said that margins in some of its business lines were hurt by a strong dollar and higher energy costs.

69.   Volatile stock markets and higher energy costs are troubling too, the Fed said, because they put a dent in personal and business spending.

70.   X-rays simply have much higher energies and shorter wavelengths than light does.