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- From: kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm)
- Subject: The hidden costs of Environmentalism : A case study
- Message-ID: <C1Hs2M.3DH@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Summary: recharging of car air conditions is now big bucks $$$$$$$
- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:54:22 GMT
- Keywords: r-12, cars, big bucks
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- On a recent trip to South Carolina, I helped a friend of mine repair
- his car. One of the things we wanted to do was recharge is air conditioner
- system. So, off to the auto supply store we went to get several cans of
- R-12 ( freon ), but to our dismay we were told that they no longer stocked
- R-12 because of EPA regulations. My friend told me he had bought enough
- refrigerent to recharge his car several years ago for $6, and worried that
- the price might have gone up if the EPA was in the loop.
-
- He was correct, because we tried in vain to buy freon anywhere in town. He
- was finally told that the only place to go was a garage where they have the
- new EPA approved delivary systems for R-12. The cost for a garage to do this
- $6 job is now $110. That is a 1733% increase in cost, and it is another
- example of the price we will pay for our environment.
-
- I am not against protecting the environment, but should we have to pay
- this type of cost? Why didn't someone figure out a way to lower the cost
- before they implemented the regulations?
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