Companies will not spend billions of dollars unless they have no other option. I don't think you're necessarily right this is temporary. But companies always h

Companies will not spend billions of dollars unless they have no other option. I don't think you're necessarily right this is temporary. But companies always have the option of just not producing. If no one has blue paint, for most uses, the consumer just buys another color and grumbles. And the things that are most likely to have a shortage would be those things that are cheapest produce a large scale in just one part of the world, so they're things that would be hardest to replace.