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Subject:Re: AC Conversion
From:jbange
Date:Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:56:54 -0700

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...