Keywords: World oil price in dollars from 1978 to 2008-10-17 log scale.svg world oil price in dollars from 1978 to 2008-10-17 log 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 transferred from http //en wikipedia org/wiki/Image World_oil_price_in_dollars_from_1978_to_2008-10-17_log_scale svg 2008-10-24 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 linear scale thumb center Price history from 1978 to 2008-10-31 on a log scale thumb left Price history from 1998 to 2008-10-31 on a log scale clr See also thumb left Price history from 1998 to 2008-10-31 on a log scale clr SVG economics Oil prices |