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Subject:Re: AC Conversion
From:jimt
Date:Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:00:48 -0600

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...
> 
> 

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