It's certainly a crisis if your choice this winter is "heat or eat".
Round here and into town the petrol stations are full of queues: this could be a serious problem for me if there's no petrol by Tuesday night as I won't be able to drive to work Wednesday to Friday - my commute is 160 miles and I can get 500 miles from a tank-full of petrol. As I'm part of the "gig economy", that'll be over £1200 lost.