The FBI and other government agencies worked with private companies to immobilise the system the hackers used to collect the data, but it's still not clear if it's safe for Colonial to resume operations. While fuel prices currently remain steady, if the shutdown continues prices are likely to spike, especially as America's oil inventories have been in decline, and demand has just started to rise as travel is on the up as the COVID-19 pandemic eases.

The US government even had to introduce emergency legislation on Sunday so that fuel drivers in 18 states can work longer and more flexible hours when transporting fuel by road so that fuel can be driven up the pipeline to New York, but this will not be enough to plug the gap.

But this isn't the first shortage America has experienced over the past year, and the same goes for the rest of the world too. Whether due to panic buying because of the andemic or shipping delays caused by the recent Suez Canal crisis, shortages have affected a variety of products. From potato chips and cheese to Nintendo consoles, click or scroll through to see products that have been hard to come by.

Product shortages that affected the world in 2020 and 2021