As the public switches away from gasoline powered cars and countries embrace alternative generation technologies, of course the industry is going to go into panic mode… Which is stupid. What no one seems to get is that many of these alternatively powered machines will still require high quality, high temperature and high viscosity oils and greases to operate. What is merely decades of oil reserves used primarily as fuels, can become centuries of reserves used for lubicants. Stupid to look backwards and cling to the past.
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2026
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