Long Hot Summer: EPA Regulations Lead to 400 Per Cent Freon Price Hike

from The Lonely Conservative by Lonely Conservative:

Long Hot Summer: EPA Regulations Lead to 400 Per Cent Freon Price Hike:
The following is a guest post by Joseph Hall.
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Long Hot Summer: EPA Regulations Lead to 400 Per Cent Freon Price Hike
With a warmer than normal winter, the odds of a warmer summer are likely, and with that a huge price increase for Freon. The EPA’s crusade against global warming has resulted in a major blow for consumers.

In some parts of the country, the price increase for the new environmentally-friendly, EPA-approved Freon is 300 to 400 percent higher since the first of the year; therefore, air-conditioning and refrigeration repairs  and service calls will be quite expensive.
National Review Online is reporting, “Thanks EPA! Price of Freon Set to Skyrocket” (Greg Pollowitz)

“What it means [...]

What it means is that after being screwed over by the EPA regulating R-12 the EPA now screws us over further.


I wonder how much the agency stands to benefit form the exorbitant fines that are attached to needless regulations such as this.