Are gas prices and tax rebate funds related?

Call me a conspiracy theorist. But, it seems odd that now, when people have started to receive their tax rebate checks, that gasoline prices have started to drop. If one were to speculate, one could deduce that the fall in gas prices are working to lull people into a false sense of financial security allowing them to be more free with their discretionary income, or tax rebate funds. It's just a theory. What do you think? Will gas price jump again?