Sooo I'm trying to figure out how I can please everyone and get my AC system evacuated so I can remove it. The issue is swap car isn't on the road, so I can't be driving it all over town to an AC shop.
And I'm cheap.
But I don't really want to release bad stuff into the air.
What do you guys do in this scenario?
Sooo local shop told me to just crack the lines... 
Can someone put my moral conscience to rest? It's r134a
Why do you think it's bad? You know that the scientist that got the Nobel prize for declaring R12 bad later said he was wrong? And it being R134a, even that doesn't matter.
You can blow the charge. Or, you can tow your car to an AC shop to have it evacuated. Or, you can hire a AC man to come out with his system. So, blow a hundred bucks to do nothing to "save the environment" but make yourself feel good. Maybe you need a Prius next.
Plant a tree to compensate? 
I cracked the lines. Luckily, not much came out. It seems it was mostly air?
I did not plant a tree in the back, instead I urinated on an existing one. Does that count?
Prius? No. CR-Z? Maybe. 
Dr. Hess wrote: Why do you think it's bad? You know that the scientist that got the Nobel prize for declaring R12 bad later said he was wrong? And it being R134a, even that doesn't matter. You can blow the charge. Or, you can tow your car to an AC shop to have it evacuated. Or, you can hire a AC man to come out with his system. So, blow a hundred bucks to do nothing to "save the environment" but make yourself feel good. Maybe you need a Prius next.
No, R134A does matter. It's been proven to be worse than R-12 and will be replaced within the next 5 years.
But my recommendation would be to just let it escape. It would be best to recover it without doing that, but in your case I think that's what I would do. It's not like you're going to bring the end of the world by doing it. They're probably wrong about it anyway.
Dr. Hess wrote: ... Or, you can tow your car to an AC shop to have it evacuated. ...
I know I'm being picky, but when you take refrigerant out of a system, you are recovering it, not evacuating it. Evacuating it refers to putting it under a vacuum to boil out the moisture in the system before charging.
I heard that if you dangle a pine tree air freshener near the refrigerant as it's being released into the atmosphere it counter acts the badness.
refrigerant is released every day from vehicle collisions, one more release prolly ain't gonna matter in the grand scheme of things
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