The average cost of a gallon of regular unleaded is now about $4.50 – so up about 30 cents per gallon since the last War Tax Report, which was published on April 28 – about one week ago. That means the meme I’d been using with Was Tax Reports up to now is out of date. It shows an Exxon sign indicting regular unleaded for sale at $4.49 – with Trump’s face an “America’s Back” on a billboard behind it.

What was exaggerated and even hyperbolic just a couple of months ago is now factual.

In just four months, the cost of gas has gone up by about $1.70 per gallon, which means that it now costs just shy of $70 to fill up a typical crossover’s roughly 15 gallon tank – as opposed to about $42 in December of 2025, when the average cost of regular unleaded was $2.80 per gallon. The average crossover thus now costs about $30 more to fill up than it did a little more than four months ago. Put another way, it now costs almost as much extra to fill that crossover up than it cost to fill it up just four months ago.

What will happen when it costs twice as much to fill up – for everyone?

That point will be reached about one dollar and fifty cents from today – when the cost of gasoline hits $6 per gallon. Then everyone’s fuel costs will have at least doubled. It will amount to a war tax  for the average crossover owner of about $45 per tankful extra, or about $2,160 annually, assuming four fill-ups per month. It will be the largest – and fastest – single tax hike at the federal level in decades, if ever.

And it will be catastrophic – for everyone except, of course, Donald Trump.

After all, what does he care? He has literally said he doesn’t, to begin with. He says it is “worth it,” too. To him. Meaning, it is worth it in the context of whatever the real agenda is. Some think that agenda has to do with furthering the Greater Israel project and there is almost certainly truth in that evaluation. It is obvious that the state of Israel – specifically, the non-Semite whose grandfather changed the family name to “Netanyahu,” which renders that which is Eastern European into something vaguely Semitic-sounding, wanted this war.

It is something along the lines of the changing one’s name from say Frizzell Gray to Kweise Mfume, to conjure an “African” patina. In his defense, Mfume is at least actually descended from black Africans. “Netanyahu” is descended from Eastern Europeans – people with no ancestral ties to the land they claim as theirs by divine right.

In any event, “Netanyahu” and the immensely powerful interests behind him wanted war and they bought (or blackmailed) Trump to deliver it. The Epstein Business is now very much off most people’s radar – because as awful as all of that is, people are focused on the awfulness at the pump. It tends to refocus one’s attention.

Some – the people who believe in a different “plan” – think it is all part of Trump’s 55D chess maneuverings that have as their end goal the shoring up of the American empire via the crippling of the rising Chinese (and BRICs, generally) empires. They say what is going on in the Middle East is the next move after the Venezuela move of a few months ago, which aimed to seize control of the oil that the Chinese were depending on to fuel their growing empire. By cutting off the supply from Iran, the argument goes, Trump is masterfully securing America’s near-and-long-term hegemony.

How that works is hard to understand since the effect of all of this is something along the lines of Remdesivir on “COVID” patients. It is difficult to see how America – more finely, Americans – benefit from having to pay twice as much for fuel on top of how much more they’re already paying for just about everything else, too. Probably, we are now very close to a tipping point – the point at which it is no longer that people are merely grumbling about having to pay more for fuel but are unable to pay for it anymore. At $6 per gallon, the owner of a pick-up or SUV that has a 23 gallon tank will be spending close to $140 to fuel up.

The war tax, for this person, will be about $3,313 annually.

What if the “plan” – not the one trusted by the Red Hats – is to usher in the Great Reset they thought they were Voting Harder to kibosh? It sure appears to be the “plan,” doesn’t it? If you go by effects – as opposed to rhetoric –  that is.

The Great Reset assumes – it requires – general impoverishment; the enserfment of working and middle-income Americans – the very cohort that comprises Trump’s Vote Harder support base. So long as working and middle income Americans can afford things like trucks and SUVs and single family homes and food, there can be no Great Reset.  When all of those things are taken away, many of them will beg for the Great Reset. They will forget all about the truck and SUV and their single family home. Lack of food will do that.

And $6 per gallon  (and $10 per gallon diesel) will do just that.

Cue up that odious Lee Greenwood song.

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