Keywords: Oil world price from 1998 to 2008 Oct 31.svg world oil price in dollars from 1978 to 2008-10-31 linear scale; weekly prices in United States dollars per barrel on the vertical scale vertical with year markers on the horizontal scale I 84user created this work using the excel file pet_pri_wco_k_w xls from the U S Energy Information Administration's web page http //tonto eia doe gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_wco_k_w htm and using Open Source Gnumeric 1 9 1 to produce the chart 2008-11-11 84user talk validSVG Data source http //tonto eia doe gov/dnav/pet/xls/pet_pri_wco_k_w xls See also thumb left Price history from 1998 to 2008-10-31 on a log scale thumb center Price history from 1978 to 2008-10-31 on a log scale clr Oil prices SVG x-y functions SVG economics |