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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Subject: Re: The hidden costs of Environmentalism : A case study
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.205904.21084@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: r-12, cars, big bucks
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- Organization: University of Chicago
- References: <C1Hs2M.3DH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan27.040332.20699@midway.uchicago.edu> <C1IzKI.JrG@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:59:04 GMT
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- In article <C1IzKI.JrG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm) writes:
- >thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
- >>In article <C1Hs2M.3DH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm) writes:
- >>> 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.
- >
- >>Except it was never a $6 job. It was $6 for the can, and $200+ for the
- >>environmental damage. Just because you didn't have to directly pay for the
- >>damage you did to the environment by wasting away the ozone, doesn't
- >>mean that it was less "costly" before the regulations.
- >
- > So, where did you get the $200+ figure from? I agree that R-12 is _probably_
- >bad for the earth. To what extentent is unknown, and how people changing
- >their own air conditioner coolent figures into the equation is completely
- >unknown. Sorry, I don't buy your figures.
-
- Neither do I. Just a hypothetical example. As long as you acknowledge
- that the social cost of you spilling freon out there is more than the $6
- you paid for the can.
-
- The effects of loose freon on ozone are well-known, as are the effects
- of lack of ozone on cancer rates.
-
- >>> 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?
- >
- >>Hey, you can pay the cost either in regulating freon usage so it doesn't
- >>leak and kill the ozone, or you can pay the cost with the extra risk of
- >>cancer to the next ten thousand generations. Your call.
- >
- > What I am concerned about is a knee-jerk responce by the EPA. Why did
- >they go with this outright ban? Whatever happened to phasing something out?
-
- My impression is that this *is* the middle of a phase out.
-
- >They did the phase out with leaded gas, and it worked well. Do you honestly
- >believe that freon causes such a clear and present danger as to call for the
- >immediate regulation? I think not.
-
- And what evidence do you base that thought on? Why are you automatically
- assuming that the Bush-run EPA didn't do a cost-benefit analysis before
- getting the regulation past the Competitiveness Council? Why didn't
- Dan Quayle complain about it to the heavens?
-
- Look, there are enough stupid regulations out there for you to find one
- to pick on without complaining about something as reasonable as freon
- control.
-
- >A phasing out process over 5 years would have
- >allowed people, and technology to catch up.
-
- It also would have caused irreparable environmental damage, the costs of
- which the EPA apparentally felt outweighed the benefits of a phase-out.
- Leaving aside the fact that the EPA *is* using a phase-out.
- --
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