1.   Gasoline inventories have dwindled as refiners tried to cut costs and because many have been focusing on boosting heating oil supplies for the winter.

2.   Milder weather comes after a chilly November sent natural gas prices to a record amid mounting anxiety that inventories may dwindle to dangerously low levels by February.

3.   Milder weather is helping ease anxiety that inventories would dwindle this winter if the weather proved colder than normal.

4.   New sales were also met with strong demand from securities firms whose inventories have dwindled.

5.   Natural gas futures also fell amid a further easing of speculation that U.S. inventories would dwindle to uncomfortably low levels this winter.

6.   Oil prices have risen in recent months amid concern over whether Iraq will be able to sell its oil on the world market, and as U.S. inventories dwindle.

7.   Prices for those commodities are at record highs as inventories dwindle to the lowest level in decades while demand in both domestic and export markets continues strong.

8.   The forecasts eased concern that lean inventories would dwindle in the days ahead, as earlier forecasts of colder weather suggested they might.

9.   The forecasts further reduced speculation that already-lean U.S. natural gas inventories would dwindle to dangerously low levels by the end of the winter.

10.   The forecasts further dampened speculation that already-lean U.S. natural gas inventories would dwindle to dangerously low levels by the end of the winter.