I think that the loss of Natural Gas is going to be you major problem by the end of your winter.  This is from an interview with Howard Kunstler on Global Public Media:

"     Every year there's what's called a summer injection season. When houses are not being heated, the gas companies all over North America get gas out of the ground, and they put it into storage in certain places in the ground at the heads of the pipeline network. The natural gas of America runs all around the United States in a pipeline network (it doesn't run around in trucks, although a little of it runs around in the form of propane, but most of the natural gas we use is methane, and it runs around through a pipeline network, so when the winter heating season comes, all that gas in storage is released and starts moving around.

    Well, in March of 2003, we ran very low on stored gas from the previous injection season, and the pressure started to go down in the regional trunk lines of that pipeline network, and we had never been in this situation before, where the pressure had gone so low that the furnaces have gone out as a result. It's never really happened on a mass basis, so the specter was that if the gas pressure got that low and the furnaces went out all over America, or lets say all over a region, such as the New York-Connecticut metropolitan region, then some of the furnaces would restart automatically, because the newer furnaces do that, but a certain percentage of them wouldn't, and when the gas pressure returns, you'd have this potential for exploding furnaces, with gas being released but no pilot light on, and that raised the specter of what is the power company going to do? Are they going to send technicians around to every building in the region to check every furnace? They'd need thousands and thousands more employees to do it, so we had this unprecedented situation that nobody knew how it was going to play out. As it happened, the pressure never got that low that furnaces went out, but believe me, for a while they were very worried about it, and it could happen again."

The full interview can be found at http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/transcripts/431

This summer injection season must have been seriously affected by the shut in gas from the Gulf.  If there was only just enough gas the last couple of years then what will happen this year?