The answer is simple.

Make hay while the sun is shining, and  as long as you have a lock on
the exclusive right's to the product gouge the masses while the going is
good.

The price won't go up--it's going to go down in 2007.
This when the patent rights to the product run out.

After the patent is up Joe's AC refrigerant manufacturingg is to make
available at a  more resonable price, cutting Dupots profit margin big
cosiderably.

I didnt dream all this up , I got it direct from the source, a Dupont
rep at the local AC  equipment / product wholesaler last week.

R-12 went outa sight simple because the EPA taxed the death out of it.
They wanted to eliminate it from being used, and taxing was the name of
the game on that product.

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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...