Would Collapse If Oil Hit $200

The global economy would collapse if oil hit $200 a barrel, said the top energy analyst at WorldWatch Portugal..
Two-hundred dollar oil would break the back of the global economy, next step after $200 would be global recession and bad news for everybody.
Some speculators like r Goldman Sachs Group Inc. forecast oil would rise to between $150 and $200 within two years as supply growth, especially from producers outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, fails to keep pace with demand.
Oil doubled in the past year, touching a record $139.89 a barrel on June 16. Crude oil for August delivery was at $136.84 a barrel, down 16 cents, at 7:08 p.m. Tokyo time in after-hours trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Russia, a non-OPEC producer and the world's biggest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia, faces its first annual decline in production in a decade. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pledged to reduce taxation on the industry to stimulate investment in aging fields and new regions. Output fell 0.9 percent to 9.76 million barrels a day in the first five months of the year.
Growth last quarter fell on a year-on-year basis, and this has to do with the policies implemented over the prior year to raise taxes on oil industries, this made it difficult for foreign capital to come in.