I would suggest that the Oil Cartel in the USA wants to see a regime change and I would think that Koch is leading the charge. Jack up the price of fuel and most idiots will vote for a change but never get it because they just voted for the very people who are beating them over the head by jacking the price of fuel.
Reasons for increasing gas prices are the greedy oil industry wanting higher profits, the Ukraine War, AND...
"Geopolitical instability is adding to crude oil price volatility. At the end of May, the European Union announced it would ban around 90% of oil imports from Russia due to the war in Ukraine—and it continues to rattle crude oil markets and push prices upward."
Source: Forbes, 6/17/2022