I am sure the duraflame I burn 10 times a year is the cause of this, it certainly is not the hundreds of thousands of cars which run daily.
I installed a steel swedish style fireplace with triple layer pipe in an add-on room in Ohio following all the instructions and cautions.
I placed a duraflame log in that sucker and lit it up.
Thirty minutes later, I had all the windows open, the door open, the garage door open trying to cool that crazy thing down.
When the log finally burned out and the paint had fully cured, my toes were curled and I learned how to saw the dumb things in half lengthwise.
actually, you may well be wrong there. modern cars hardly pollute the air at all.