Oil Industry's Uncertainty

The piece written in the New York Times on January 15, 2009 is a good example of an article that contains statistics and charts, as read about in Chapter 4 of Inside Reporting. Bar charts are used to compare oil price changes between 1990 and 2008. The article presents a good amount of numbers without it being confusing to the reader. A word used to describe the oil inustry is "volatile". It perfectly defines the way oil companies feel about the rising and lowering of prices and the demand for oil in recent times. Overall the article is written very well and portrays the struggle and confusion that oil companies are currently going through.