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Strategies & Market Trends : Aardvark Adventures
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To: ~digs who wrote (3544)10/26/2007 6:38:38 AM
From: ~digs  Read Replies (1) of 7944
 
FACTBOX-Record oil price still below inflation-adjusted high

Oct 26 (Reuters) - U.S. oil surged to a nominal all-time
high of $92.22 a barrel on Friday, boosting the annual average
price to $67.87.
Adjusted for inflation, that is still below the $101.70 peak
hit in April 1980, according to the International Energy Agency,
a year after the Iranian revolution.
The following table from the BP Statistical Review picks out
key moments in oil market history. It gives average annual
dollar-denominated oil prices in money of the day and the
equivalent price in 2006 money. Prices are in dollars a barrel.

Year, Money of the day , Inflation adjusted
1864 - Pennsylvania oil boom 8.06 104.35
1876 - Russian oil exports start 2.56 48.64
1948 - Rebuilding post World War Two 1.99 16.74
1974 - Arab oil embargo 11.58 47.54
1979 - Iranian revolution 31.61 88.13
1980 - Iran-Iraq war starts 36.83 90.46
1990 - Iraq's invasion of Kuwait 23.73 36.76
1998 - Asian economic crisis 12.72 16.22
2003 - China 2nd biggest oil consumer 38.27 40.83
*2007 Year-to-date average 67.38 67.38
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