They bought tents, cots, heaters, food, and water and helped several families build a temporary "tent city".

Buy only heaters evaluated by a nationally recognized laboratory, such as Underwriters Laboratories (UL).

The result was that wealthy and middle-class Iraqis rushed to buy imported refrigerators, heaters and other power-hungry products, and the demand for electricity surged - with no capacity available to meet that surge in demand.

"We had no place to store the wine, so we had to store the bottles outside, and buy heaters to keep it warm," Mr. Percy recalled.

She bought electric heaters and placed them in corners of the apartment.

"Then why offer to buy heaters?"

Under the plan that the aides said Mr. Gore would unveil this week, he would provide tax breaks to encourage consumers and small-business owners to buy houses, cars, hot-water heaters and other products that were energy efficient.

An outdoor market in Possilpark was used in the episode "Cauld" when the character Winston buys several electric heaters.

Adults are the ones who leave the pans on the stove, smoke in bed, overload house wiring and buy unsafe heaters.

While it is possible to buy electric heaters that produce up to about 17,000 B.T.U.'s, another heater that will produce the same amount of heat without electricity is the cylinder-shaped kerosene heater sold in many hardware stores.