Given that the costs are in dollars in the quoted passage, it's clear that this article is aimed at a US audience. So when reporting a written quote with sectio

Given that the costs are in dollars in the quoted passage, it's clear that this article is aimed at a US audience. So when reporting a written quote with sections that a reader might assume was an error but is actually correct because it's a direct quote, using [sic] is exactly the right thing to do.