Talk about a case of having your chickens coming home to roost!! For all those people that have been in a political position to diversify our dependence away from oil, the day of reckoning seems to be here. The somewhat surreal spike in oil prices is causing havoc in all financial markets as the specter of worldwide inflation beckons on the horizon. There is no denying that this is a very serious situation and where it all goes could be disastrous.