From: markm@bigfoot.sps.mot.com (Mark Monninger)
Subject: Re: Auto air conditioning without Freon
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In article <1993Apr15.222600.11690@research.nj.nec.com>  
behanna@syl.nj.nec.com (Chris BeHanna) writes:
>  ...
> 	Several chemists already have come up with several substitutes for
> R12.  You don't hear about them because the Mobile Air Conditioning  
Society
> (MACS), that is, the people who stand to rake in that $300 to $1000 per
> retrofit per automobile, have mounted an organized campaign to squash  
those
> R12 substitutes out of existence if not ban them altogether (on very  
shaky
> technical grounds, at best, on outright lies at worst).
>  ...

Now, I'm not saying you're wrong because I know that the R-12 substitutes  
exist, but this sounds a lot like the 200mpg carbs that the oil companies  
keep us all from getting.

Mark

