AUSTINTOWN, Ohio - While the U.S. tries to inflict economic pain on Russia, the pain at the pump continues here at home.

Oil prices surged to $100 a barrel Tuesday for the first time since 2014.

The average price for a gallon of regular in Ohio sits at around $3.34. Gasbuddy.com reports that's up from about 30 cents a month ago and roughly 95 cents from a year ago in Ohio.

A group of democrat lawmakers are proposing a federal gas tax holiday that would cut about 18 cents off per gallon through Jan. 1 of 2023.

"I think we do whatever we need to do to bring gas prices down," Senator Sherrod Brown said, D-OH.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told NBC News that about "8 or 9" democrats are behind the bill to suspend the gas tax right now, “including many of those in tough races in 2022."

Brown says the U.S. still needs to do more.

"A number of corporations are using inflation as an opportunity to raise prices, so the Biden Administration has to come down hard on them," he said.

Members of the GOP argue the administration needs to change energy policies.

"When you cut down your domestic supply and go to other people in the world, many of them bad actors, and ask them to kind of make up for what you just shutdown yourself, why would we be surprised that the cost of this is much higher?" Congressman Mike Kelly said, R-PA, 16th district.

Congressman Kelly and Bill Johnson say we need to stop shutting down our pipelines and allow oil and gas drilling on public land.

"We should be increasing production here at home, we should be permitting pipelines to take that resource to our refineries, we should stop shutting down our pipelines," Johnson said, R-OH, 6th district.

Johnson said he would consider a gas tax holiday, but strongly urged that the U.S. needs to look at the bigger picture.

"I certainly think this is something that I'm willing to take a look at, but that's not going to solve the problem," Johnson said.

"The way to solve this problem and reduce the price of gas at the fuel pump for the American people is to once again return to policies that make us energy independent."