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This chart doesn't make any sense. What we want to know is how many barrels of oil were produced each year from 2001 to 2007. Instead we get a chart by the month. To read this chart directly would indicate that each month +-80 thousand billion barrels of oil are produced. 3 errors here:

Let us assume the left axis should be billions and not thousand of billions. It can't be +-80 billion per month, perhaps it means 80 billion per year? It can't be +-80 billion per year because we have been told that it is somewhere around 30 billion barrels a year.

Maybe it means +-80 million barrels per day? That would match other numbers given elsewhere.

So what does it mean? And why is there a mark for each month? Each month at a yearly rate maybe? It is just not clear.24.69.35.203 05:42, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]