Hello,

First, I understand that 2.0 is just two days away as of writing this and might change things. Or it might not, so just in case. You unlock Cliff explosives at Logistics science. To make them, you need Explosives, which in turn need Glycerol. However, with logi science, there's only one way of making Glycerol, and that also creates two units of Oleochemicals for every unit of Glycerol.

Problem is, Oleochemicals is completely useless at that stage. It has only one recipe, Lubricant, available, which is also useless as there's zero recipes to use Lubricant on. And you get two and half units of Lubricant per one unit of Oleochemicals so you don't really want to do it. So only option is to stockpile Oleochemicals until later as you can not void either it or Lubricant, as there's no recipe to do it. Which, having played this far, seems against hard mode, where every byproduct can be handled in some way as soon as it is unlocked, even if it has actual use with later science packs so you won't need to stockpile anything unless you want to. Can't even flush them.