We are waking up to $75 a barrel oil prices! Going back to bed will not help, it will be higher tomorrow.

The only silver lining in these out of control oil prices, and the pain at we are suffering at the pump, is that this will increase the desire of average Americans to drive the current controlling party out of Congress. If anything will get people to the polls it will be high gas prices.

The challenge for the Democrats is to take advantage of this problem and offer a real alternative to bring these prices back down. A tall order if ever there was one.