I just deleted several comments I was making because I stopped to think about how my message was going to be taken. I we were taking on a phone or discussing this face to face you would see my level of agreement with your statements but at the same time be able to see I know, for me, it is just a simply a need to comply with the regulations.
In 1992 I was in a large ballroom at the refrigeration and air conditioning industry convention and show in Anaheim, California. I remember well some of the questions and answer given in that conference. How long before we will be able to see a reduction in the hole in the Ozone layer. The answer from the EPA was was "20 years"! The EPA spokeswomen responded to another question, If new refrigerants that were coming out do not have chlorine in them, would we still have to recover and dispose of them as R12 and R22 and the others? Her response was "yes". There was a followup question, "why".
Her answer was:
You have to understand, there is are a lot of of new businesses that that has have created for all of the equipment, tanks, transporting, recycling and incinerating contaminated refrigerant, we just can't shut those industries down.
2 years later I am reading a article in the Cincinnati Enquirer during my lunch break and saw a article titled, Hole in Ozone aver Antarctica Getting Smaller, in that article the comment from Deborah Ottinger, from the EPA, was that it was evidence that the Clean Air Act and regulations the EPA has introduced is making a difference. That was after she had said 2 years earlier it was going to take 20 years to see an effect.
Michael Labanz
The "Good Guy"
Good Guys Air Conditioning
Some points well taken, but in a larger context it's all beside the point, which is the quack-science bill-of-goods we've all been sold because of "ozone depletion".
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