https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/03/12/mas-s61-assignment-4/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:40:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/03/12/mas-s61-assignment-4/#comment-318 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:37:00 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=361#comment-318 Nathan’s comment on the graph is striking to me as well – if this latest price increase is to be blamed on Obama – or not, as you seem to be arguing. It would also be interesting to see what this graph looks like adjusted for inflation – are we simply at a point in time where oil markets are so tight that these spikes are highly likely? Or is that mostly an artifact of using an absolute price for gas? I’d love to see a version of this that talked a bit about past peaks, perhaps going back to the 1970s and the OPEC embargo…

]]> https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/03/12/mas-s61-assignment-4/#comment-155 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:40:05 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=361#comment-155 Could it be the bailout?

]]> https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/03/12/mas-s61-assignment-4/#comment-148 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:18:36 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=361#comment-148 That’s a fascinating graph. What led to the drop in prices in 2008?

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