That's the latest trick in news reporting these days. Sometimes they report the total cost, sometimes the yearly cost, sometimes over ten years. I guess that's

That's the latest trick in news reporting these days. Sometimes they report the total cost, sometimes the yearly cost, sometimes over ten years. I guess that's part of the effort to make numbers have an emotional effect while making them hard to compare. School buses, football fields, width of a hair, elephants and so on, 2/3rds vs 66%. Most people have no idea how to compare them.