Biden suggested that his mother having to wipe 'the oil slick off the window' before driving him to school as a child may have been tied to him developing cancer.
President Joe Biden blamed Delaware pollution including"oil slicks" on car windows for causing cancer. Biden is pictured speaking about environmental issues during a speech in Somerset, Massachusetts, on July 20, 2022.has suggested that Delaware pollution including"oil slicks" may have been responsible for cancer experienced by him and"so damn many" others.
Biden said that a former Massachusetts official had told him about how previous pollution had meant that"folks used to get a rag out and wipe the gunk off their car's windshield just to be able to drive" before his speech. He compared the anecdote to his own experience in Claymont, Delaware, where he moved after his family left Scranton, Pennsylvania, when he was 10 years old.
"Guess what—the first frost, you know what was happening?" said Biden."You'd have to put on your windshield wipers to get, literally, the oil slick off the window. That's why I, and so damn many other people I grew up with, have cancer. And why, for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation."
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