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Thursday, July 13th, 2006 11:24 pm
Breaking the adjusted-for-inflation record cost of oil is like waiting for the copyright on Mickey Mouse to expire.

CNN on August 6, 2004: According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the average price of oil in 1981 was $31.77 a barrel, or about $60 in 2004 dollars. The February 1981 peak price of $39.00 equals about $73.50 today.

CNN on April 19, 2006: [...] it's also within sight of inflation-adjusted highs of around $80 a barrel set in the late 1970s and early 1980s following the gas crisis and the Iranian revolution.

CNN on July 13, 2006: Adjusted for inflation, oil prices would need to rise to about $90 a barrel to exceed the highs set a quarter century ago when supplies tightened in the aftermath of a revolution in Iran and a war between Iraq and Iran.
Friday, July 14th, 2006 08:03 am (UTC)
The numbers you get depend on whether you're using the highest price iat a given moment, the highest average monthly price, or the highest average yearly price. And there are lots of different ways to calculate inflation, too. My money would be on the news organizations being too chicken to be the first to say the bad news, and skewing their calculations that way... ;)