All because our local municipality, regional government and environmental protection agencies don't want to make it easy for us regular people to have a safe way to dispose of our used motor oil

There is no "safe" way.. It's all a matter of you being ok with the environmental destruction of what you are doing and the horror that is "the solution to pollution is dilution".

Most people are ok with it, so you (and me) x a few billion and its why the planets biosphere is in a complete fucking mess. Sixth mass extinction, plastic ubiquity, pfas every where, climate change, shitty air quality etal

"If we carry on with the way we are going now, I can't see this civilisation lasting to the end of this century.. no chance in my view, on the current trajectory" - Professor Tim Lenton Chair of Climate Change and Earth System Science, University of Exeter.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

In that respect

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/14/opinion/science-civilization-collapse-environment-limits

Rees bluntly states, “the human enterprise is effectively subsuming the ecosphere” and “wide-spread societal collapse cannot be averted — collapse is not a problem to be solved, but rather the final stage of a cycle to be endured.”