You would be able to tell soon than that. Gasoline prices would need to move higher separate from crude oil prices first.
If gasoline prices fell after the elections but crude oil prices were falling as well, it would not prove your imagination correct.
You have never tried to answer the question, if they have the ability and control to raise gasoline prices separate from crude oil, why wasn't it done before? Also, why would it ever go back down?
And you, sir, continue to miss my point entirely.
Once again: assuming they have the ability and control to raise gasoline prices arbitrarily (my assumption)...it wasn't done before because the need to remove a sitting President who is killing a major sector of the US economy has never arisen before. The oil companies have the power to do this because they can alter public perception of a presidency by simply charging a fortune at the pump...right before a presidential election.
I have always been inclined to follow the money...