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About 150 years of oil-price history: This one chart illustrates crude's spectacular plunge below $0 a barrel - MarketWatch
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A Balasubramanian on X: "Cost of production of Crude Oil varies from country to country ; however major oil producing nations even at the USD 30 per barrel is still making huge
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