Its become perfectly clear that the big oil companies are cashing in while average American families are being bled dry,

a gift to the oil companies.

Big Oil behemoths are making out like bandits, while the average American family is getting killed by high gas prices, and soon-to-be-record heating oil prices.

A far more muscular use of the SPR is what is needed at a time when oil is over $70 a barrel.

Any party that writes off 25, 30, 35 percent of the American people is not going to be a winner.

The Bush administration, with its doctrinal commitment to unfettered deregulation, has insisted that this situation can be resolved by allowing the states and utility industry to deal with it by themselves,