> I don't understand what this article has to do with Hacker News.

Taiwan has roughly 10 days left of gas supply.

Oil and gas are not only used for energy, but are the primary component of many, many materials and chemicals.

Some of the oil/gas plants that were hit will take months to fix. Pipelines have stopped.

We have a huge risk of a global supply chain destabilization for any sector. Think what happened with chip supply with covid, and make it much worse since the manufacturers never did stop during covid, while there is a risk they will have to stop now.

Not all machines and production can be stopped and started immediately, so even a short interruption can have lasting and cascading consequences.

Covid thought us that the world relies too much on just-in-time production, and we lack buffers in many, many fields. This has likely not changed.