Re: 6 years (and counting) for a fridge
It's not the old Freon anymore. The stuff is supposedly environmentally safe.. and expensive. Horribly expensive.
Unless your 'new' fridge was manufactured before the mid '90s, it won't have contained CFCs. My understanding is that the freon most commonly in use nowadays is 1,1,1,2-terachloroethane, which is prety cheap stuff, probably less than £10 to fill a fridge. I've also seen fridges with cyclopentane in them, which is also dirt-cheap, but flammable.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
