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I don't understand the point of this thread at all. Most commodity prices follow inflation with exceptions if the cost of production or demand changes suddenly. That is pretty much what the graph shows for oil. Demand is inelastic but the cost of production gradually decreases over time. The two spikes have obvious causes, the 79 oil crisis and the 08 financial bubble. You'll note that movie was produced shortly after the former. Now, as the graph needs to be updated to reflect, prices are almost back to where they were. One could expect the cost of production to INCREASE gradually in the future, but despite the protests of the peak oil crowd that still has yet to happen.
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