...nly two days' worth of gas reserves left. Of course, there's a catch. The thing is, Britain is now entering the Middle East crisis with a very thin gas "cushion," and that's the real problem, not that "everything will shut down tomorrow." Formally, the ministers are right: there's no immediate physical threat of shutdowns right now, the country continues to receive gas through pipelines from Norway, from its own shelf production, and from LNG deliveries by tanker. But if you look at storag...