On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Eric Zeno wrote: > All vehicles in the USA use R134a by law. No other refrigerants can > be used > in order to prevent mixing apon servicing, or recycling. A friend of mine is highly cynical about this and feels this law is more for the purpose of protected the companies with patents on R134a. He also thinks it's highly suspicious that R12 was outlawed right about when the patent on it was about to expire. I have to admit, it kind of makes you go "hmm."
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