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Drew- I predict that all the wanna-be tech divers will buy these tanks right and left, then take up snowboarding. The market will be flooded with barley used tanks and the prices will drop like a rock. Steel tanks don't wear out or go away. (except for the deepair wall divers, of course). Market forces are at work here. Today I have seen a tank of helium go for $100, $89, $50, $44. How do you explain the discrepancy? The local market. Divers aren't the only folks who use helium. Jim On 11/14/97 4:38 PM Drew Mooney wrote: > > >Jim Cobb wrote: > >> The gas is free, but you have to capture it, store it, purify it, store >> it, move it, store it again, distribute it, etc. etc. Plus there is a >> supply & demand situation. Maybe if trimix takes off the price will drop. >> >> Jim > >Just like the price of Pst tanks went through the floor when US Divers >cornered >the market on them you mean? > >Jim, Jim, Jim. Don't you see what's happening? What's going to happen? More >folks become tech divers, more steel tanks get sold for more money (when >increased sales should in effect lower production costs) and you believe >that an >increase in demand for what has been identified as a finite resource is >going to >lower the cost of it? > >Can you spell "n-a-i-v-e"? > >Drew > >> >> >> On 11/14/97 12:07 PM Jeremy Downs wrote: >> >> >It's a hair under $100.00 out here in California for the same volume. For a >> >"surplus" gas it just seems expensive. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html >> >> -- >> Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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