Horrible fact of the day: Chevron just released a new boat fuel that WILL give you cancer.
Not “might”, not “could”, WILL. It has a cancer ratio of 1:1, as in, in a group of 10 people, ALL 10 would contract CANCER.
The EPA’s safety limit is 1:1,000,000 as in 1 in a million people get cancer.
The EPA approved it anyways. I am not joking. The EPA approved a boat fuel that has a near 100% chance of giving someone cancer. It has such a good chance of giving someone cancer that if you DIDN’T get cancer YOU WOULD BE AN OUTLIER.
Fuck the oil industries.
So here’s a fact I learned from looking into it. If 100 people would eat fish that lived in waters contaminated by this fuel, it is assumed 7 of those people would get cancer.
Also handing this material unprotected gives you cancer at a rate of 1.3:1. Yes you read that right not the 1 in 7.8 chance of lung cancer from smoking, over 100% chance of cancer from this.
As of Friday August 4th the article I read said Chevron wasn’t making it yet. They want to though. They won’t tell people where they plan to make I though nor which boats will be using it. So that’s great.