I believe liberals have lost a lot of control and it frightens them . And just in general people not being the brightest bulbs . Well said . <| sep |> You want to store it at room temp , ideally out of the light , or at least in dark glass in low light conditions . Light can degrade olive oil , and so can heat that ' s why you only heat it quickly and only to just above the boiling point of water . It should keep for a year . It ' s easy to tell when vegetable oil starts to go rancid , because it starts to smell and taste like paint . Rancidity as it applies here doesn ' t mean it starts to stink like it ' s rotten , it means the oil has begun to degrade . The oil is still safe to consume at that point , it just begins to taste bad .