Do realize that you are a justifying these late-in-the-contractual obligation parts being expensive because they might have to provide the parts for a long time

Do realize that you are a justifying these late-in-the-contractual obligation parts being expensive because they might have to provide the parts for a long time? If the fact that they will have to provide them for a long time is the reason for a high cost, then that is why they charged $300 per trash can back in the day. That cannot also be the justification for $56k per trash can today. It's a circular argument.