If we are seen as taking satisfaction in the pain at the pump, we could lose this election.  Concentrating on price is the way to defeat the GOP tactics.  The tactic of tarring the eco-minded as anti-economy.

If we keep on stressing that electricity is 66 cents per gallon equivalent to oil based fuel and that plugin hybrids will allow commuting on alomst no gas.  Saving the family economy.  

That is a winning position.  On this biggest of all economic issues (in the public mind at least).

We ought to point out that more mass transit and plugin hybrids (bikes too) and neighborhood electric vehicles will stabilize gas prices by lowering demand.  Supply increases, like the GOP is touting, just have no realistic hope of stabilizing oil prices.  

Converting long haul trucks, tractors, and trains to use biogas/natural gas at 1 dollar per gallon equivalent to lower diesel fuel demand, that kind of solution, brings the economy into green focus for the swing voters.  And saving natural gas (and fuel oil)  now used for heating, by switching to geo heat exchange heating/cooling systems.

Only renewable energy can increase supply and only conservation (like the conservation that plugins and mass transit and bike lanes) can reduce demand.  The cheap, plentiful oil of the past is no longer available.

Flagrant waste and oil wars and unregulated trading have done away with that.  Fear of war doubles the price of oil, once it's processed through hedge fund manipulated markets and media hype.  Wasteful gas guzzling has set the stage for this panic.  

The oiliest administration in history has done it's best for it's true constituency, OPEC, saudi arabia, and the exxon mob.  They will all be rewarded for generations to come for their good works.  Daddy bush wanted to elevate his clan into the realm of the super rich, he has done it.

The son sealed the deal, with this huge run up in oil.  Are we going to let Rove turn this back on us?  I hope not.  Feel the pain at the pump along with the swing voters.  That's the right political path to take.

Gloating and smirking could lose us this election.