Monday, March 15, 2010

Oil price fluctuations from 1998 to 2009


I always have a hard time building charts and tables in spreadsheet programs. When I get one that works, I'm really happy.

Here's a chart, in nice basic black-and-white JPEG format, showing the highs and lows of oil prices over the past eleven years. Useful to anyone who's trying to illustrate peak oil concepts and who has as bad a spreadsheet juju as I do.

Data are in nominal US dollars for West Texas Intermediate at Cushing, Oklahoma and rounded off to the nearest whole dollar. The source of the data is the United States Energy Information Administration.

Feel free to use as you see fit.

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