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6. Um, gasoline has always contained benzene, a known carcinogen.

It still does.

Air pollution causes cancer; lots of it, and petroleum and air pollution have long been connected.

I'm not sure that anyone since the 19th century (when petroleum products were actually used in a number of medical settings) has ever thought anything in petroleum is good for you.

I note that petroleum use over more than a century has left the planet in flames, not that anyone is willing to surrender access to their precious cars.

I oppose all fossil fuels, but this said, having waded through lots of innuendo and bad thinking I reserve judgement on this article.

Science from journalists, particularly about risk, is almost uniformly bad. It is often couched in statements about "million times" without referencing the risk independent of exposure.

I repeat my oft stated half serious joke that one cannot get a degree in journalism if one has passed a college level science course with a grade of C or better.