12-14 years ago a 30# jug of R-12 would've sold for a thousand dollars, that same 30#s would've sold for $60 ten years earlier. R-12 is worth quite a bit less now. The real post-ban money was never about automotive A/C, it was in the refrigeration systems that used R-12 to the tune of hundreds or thousands of pounds per loop. Same thing's happened with R-22. Some of us were fortunate enough to stockpile prior to the manufacturing ban and learned from the R-12 scenario that there is an optimal time to sell the gas. Sell the gas before the equipment that uses this refrigerant is obsolete! Seems that there is a cycle going so I'd guess that 134 will be next and 410a the one after that to make this play on, although that may be a number of years. BTW, if you even consider buying/selling refrigerants, do everyone a favor and get the EPA cert. It's easy to do and it is the law!
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