I have a contact in the oil industry (of course, how couldn't I since I am evil incarnate?). And she shoots me some pretty handy information.
Now this report is just full of a ton of interesting oil stats, but I am not an expert enough to dissect it all. That being said, just posting it up there in case anybody is looking for some really good stats on oil.
The Energy Information Administration is also a great source of information:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.eia.doe.gov/
For the neophyte, an excellent primer on what composes the price of a gallon of gasoline:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/bookshelf/brochures/gasolinepricesprimer/index.html
And here are nominal and real gasoline prices showing that, adjusted for inflation, gas is cheaper for us than it was for our grandfathers!
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/steo/pub/fsheets/real_prices.html