The Port of Oakland, along with the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, will announce a $22 million program today to clean-up 1,000 diesel-spewing trucks in West Oakland, according to the Chron. It’s welcome news, but the newspaper’s numbers don’t appear to add up. The Chron reports that the program will pay to retrofit about 800 big rigs, and replace 200 others. But new trucks cost at least $100,000 each, so buying 200 of them will suck up nearly all of the $22 million. Plus, the retrofits are estimated to cost up to $20,000 per truck. In other words, the program would need much more than $22 million to accomplish what the paper claims.
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