Date:         Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:15:11 -0400
Reply-To:     dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET
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From:         Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
Subject:      Re: AC Conversion
Comments: To: jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
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Why would a FLAPS be selling R-22? Do you mean R-12? Most of the cost of either is due to Taxes (penalties) designed to reduce their use to top off systems that are leaking.

Dennis


----- Original Message -----
From: jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Date: Friday, April 29, 2005 3:00 pm
Subject: Re: AC Conversion

> That is still less than a buck an ounce.  r22 last I checked about
> a year
> ago was from 3 to 5 bucks and ounce depending on if it was
> recovered or new.
> We were selling R22 for 900 bucks the 30 pounder when I was
> working FLAPS.
>
>
> On 4/29/05 8:56, "jbange" <hfinn@INGRATES.NET> wrote:
>
> > At 09:51 PM 4/28/2005, you wrote:
> >> Dupont, and one other company that makes the alternative
> freon's patent
> >> rights run out in two years, and currently the price for the
> 134A is
> >> between 350.00 and $475.00 per 30 lbs. bottle.
> >>
> >> If you can locate it at Walmart, K-Mart for on the cheap, jump
> on it.
> >>
> >> It won't be for long.
> >
> > Why would the price go UP if the patent runs out? More
> manufacturers would
> > be making it. Unless this is a reference to the conspiracy
> theory that R-12
> > was only banned because DuPont's patent ran out on THAT...
> >
> >
>
>
> ????????????????????????????????????????
> jimt
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