Falling Interest Rates Have Postponed “Peak Oil”

Oil price and average per capita wages through 2016

Figure 1. Average per capita wages computed by dividing total “Wages and Salaries” as reported by US BEA by total US population, and adjusting to 2016 price level using CPI-Urban. Average inflation adjusted oil price is based primarily on Brent oil historical oil price as reported by BP, also adjusted by CPI-urban to 2016 price level. (This is slightly different from the approach used by BP.)

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