Does anyone have any long term data for crude Oil and know the exact dates for Crude oils past all time highs around the 1980s .
Mainly during the Iraq / Iran war between somewhere between 1978 to
1981
Apparently the article below says Crude hit $35 a barrel in 1981..
This may have been the equivalent of around $70 a barrel today if
adjusted for inflation... I Think it may have been in Jan 1981..
I see it was also very high in 1869... 136 yrs ago
http://www.wtrg.com/prices.htm
Iraq invaded Iran in September, 1980 by November the combined
production of both countries was only a million barrels per day and
6.5 million barrels per day less than a year before. Worldwide crude
oil production was 10 percent lower than in 1979.
The combination of the Iranian revolution and the Iraq/Iran War
resulted in crude oil prices more than doubling from $14 in 1978 to
$35 per barrel in 1981. Twenty-five years later Iran's production is
only two-thirds of the level reached under the government of Reza
Pahlavi the former Shah of Iran.