⛽️ 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The Trump administration is issuing a temporary emergency fuel waiver amid high gas prices, in an attempt to increase the domestic gasoline supply.

🤖 Cocoon AI Summary: The EPA has issued a temporary emergency fuel waiver to cut gas prices amid the ongoing Iran war, allowing the early adoption of winter-grade gasoline. Effective September 1, the waiver removes federal volatility standards, enabling refiners to sell gasoline with up to 15% ethanol and higher evaporation rates two weeks before the standard deadline of September 15. This move aims to increase domestic supply as national averages approach $4.10 per gallon due to disrupted tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, despite concerns from air-quality advocates regarding increased ground-level ozone.

In its announcement Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency said the waiver, beginning Sept. 1, will allow the sale of gasoline blended with up to 15% ethanol at a higher evaporation rate, up from the current 10% ethanol limit.

The waiver allows stations nationwide to sell a single 9%-to-15% ethanol blend through Aug. 31, then drops evaporation-rate limits altogether starting Sept. 1.

In doing so, it is effectively ending the summer-blend gasoline requirement two weeks early, a federally required fuel formulation used from June 1 to Sept. 15 to reduce smog and ozone.

Starting Sept. 1, the waiver removes federal volatility standards entirely, essentially letting refiners switch to winter-grade gasoline early instead of waiting for the summer control season to end Sept. 15.

Under the Clean Air Act, the temporary waiver is to “address extreme and unusual fuel supply circumstances affecting all parts of the United States,” as war with Iran has spiked U.S. gas prices, pushing national averages close to $4 a gallon as the conflict disrupts tanker traffic in the vital Strait of Hormuz.

This supply constraint also drives up the costs of crude oil, diesel and jet fuel, fueling broader inflation and adding extra costs for American households.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/aug/20/epa-waives-summer-blend-rule-early-aims-cut-gas-prices-iran-war-drags/

🇺🇸🐘⚡️- Vice President JD Vance raised over $5 million on Wednesday at a fundraising event for young Republicans hosted by 1789 Capital President Omeed Malik and Rockbridge Network President Chris Buskirk, according to Axios. The event offered a look at the team Vance is building ahead of a possible 2028 presidential campaign.

About 35 people attended the fundraiser, including Donald Trump Jr., Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan, Cantor Fitzgerald Chairman Brandon Lutnick, and World Liberty Financial co-founder Zach Witkoff.

The report says Vance is expected to decide on a presidential run shortly after November's midterm elections.

The Trump Administration's attempts to tie Communism to foreign foes is correct, but doesn't go far enough.

An effective battle against Communism will recognize it is not purely ideological.

Communism is no longer the working class vs. the owning class. It is the Third World vs. the First World.

The success of this shift of framing from an economic war to one of ethnic grievance is illustrated beautifully in the State Department's Cuba report which revealed "Cuban operatives sought to aggressively recruit American minority groups as internal revolutionary agents."

Americans must keep up and realize they are the extension of European Civilization and that Communism seeks to destroy us. If we don't fight on the same battlefield of identity, we will lose.

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Myth to Power presents Richard Spencer and Mark Brahmin's elaborate conspiracy that Jews have directed human breeding through media from Sumer to Hollywood.

Unfortunately, almost nothing in it survives contact with basic standards of historical evidence. My latest piece reviews this mess of a book:

https://www.keithwoods.com/p/myth-to-power

♀️ 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 GIRL POWER | Ukraine is increasingly turning to women as it confronts an urgent need for troops in the fifth year of its all-out war with Russia.

The shift in Ukraine comes as the role of women service members is also being reconsidered in the U.S.

“We’re regressing to periods of extreme discrimination against women,” said Haring, who sued the Pentagon in 2012 to overturn its combat exclusion policy. “It’s a return to these very masculine norms that don’t allow any space for women in them.”

📝 Literally the 2016 Draft Our Daughters meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/draftourdaughters

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New opinion from Ray Pistol on how Australia's "hate speech" and "hate group" laws are the result of a multigenerational communist plot to make nationalism illegal.

"March for Australia on August 30, or submit to communism, there is no third option"

https://www.noticer.news/march-free-speech-submit-communism/

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🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Jerusalem has studied not only how NATO's Article 5 operates, but where it applies. The treaty protects Turkish territory; Turkish troops do not carry that territory with them onto Syrian or occupied Cypriot soil," - Israel Hayom.