212 Will gas pressure be Cut this winter? Question. Let us know the facts Answer. —will gas pressure be reduced again this winter? Yes, if we're not very careful. The gas-works are doing their best to keep up supplies, but if the demand is too great the pressure will have to fall. Why should gas supplies be difficult now that the war is over? There is still a shortage of the kind of coal needed to make gas, and of skilled men for the works. Remember, too, that in many places the gas-works were damaged during the war.