"The goalposts of what's reasonable have moved quite a bit lately," Halff said. "One hundred and twenty-five dollars is just $15 away. It doesn't sound quite as farfetched as it did a few months ago."

But environmentalists say they're confident that Murkowski and Stevens simply don't have 60 votes in the Senate to overcome a filibuster that would allow the bill to be heard. It's equally unlikely that a Democratic-led House of Representatives would even consider hearing the legislation, said Myke Bybee, a spokesman for the Sierra Club.

"No amount of oil and no amount of money is worth despoiling the Arctic Refuge," Bybee said. "I don't think there's support for opening up a special place like the Arctic Refuge at any cost, at any amount of oil or at any cost of oil."

That's too easy. Just go bomb Iran as McCain wants to do and you get your $125 a barrel oil.

How about banning single driver SUV's if oil hits $125 a barrel.

Heaven forbid we use a 3 square mile area in a tundra wasteland larger than most states east of the Mississippi.

Heaven forbid that we drive cars that are fuel efficient.

Heaven forbid that we drive cars that are fuel efficient.

Tell ya what, you buy me a hybrid and I will use it whenever I don't actually need the full use of my quad cab truck.

I don't begrudge anyone using a vehicle that is necessary for work purposes. But there are more than too many people who don't need trucks and SUV's who drive them solely for image or the whole "bigger is better" concept prevalent in U.S. society.

Feel free to toss into that group cars with 200-300 more h.p. than is needed to get from point A to point B at 70 mph.