>Analysis: Oil price rise raises specter of global recession
By Zaida Espana and Dmitry Zhdannikov
LONDON | Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:40pm EST
(Reuters) – A jump in energy prices is jamming the slow-turning cogs of an economic recovery in the West, but that may be nothing compared to the economic shock an Israeli attack on Iran would cause.
Oil rose to a 10-month high above $125 a barrel Friday, prompting responses from policymakers around the world including U.S. President Barack Obama, watching U.S. gasoline prices follow crude to push toward $4 a gallon in an election year.
Europe may have more to fear as its fragile economic growth falters and Greece, Italy and Spain look for alternative sources to the crude they currently import from Iran, where an EU oil embargo, intended to make Iran abandon what the West fears are efforts to develop nuclear weapons, comes into force in June.
https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/26/us-oil-recession-idUSTRE81P0JA20120226