air fills

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We should be glad that we paying less than 12 dollars for a cylinder of air.  Back in the sixties we were paying any wheres from $1.00 to $1.50 for an air fill and those were only 72 cu. ft. cylinders at 2250 psi.  Today's cylinders are higher pressures and contain more volume of air.  If we take into consideration inflation cost we would be paying over $12.00 for a fill. The price of compressors,filters and electric have not stayed the same as it was in the sixties.  Scuba shops do not make money on selling air.  It is one of the things they must have to stay in business.  You are not paying for the air you are paying for the service of putting it in your cylinders