Hillary Clinton: wins the popular vote by 2.5 million votes (and maybe more). Despite winning the popular vote, she says Russian hackers rigged the system against her. She lost the electoral vote. She did not visit the state of Wisconsin even once during the campaign; apparently she was unaware that the US elects presidents based on the results of the Electoral College and not the popular vote.
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Category Winners
Announced December 16, 2016
Environmental Activists and Warmists:
- Prof Peter Wadhams, Cambridge, predicating as recently as late summer, 2016, the Arctic Ocean would be ice-free this year; it wasn't -- not by a long shot
- Natural Resources Defense Council: realizing ten years late that biofuels are worse than oil.
- The individual who spent his life savings (about $40,000) to save a few bucks/month on utility costs
Bakken Boom, Dickinson Region:
- No nominees this year
- Obama: his under-estimation of the JV team; went golfing; would get the intel briefing on the 15th tee
- Merkel: on opening her country's borders, before realizing, "maybe not such a good idea"
- Shi-ite cleric who lost his head speaking out in a country where speaking out is frowned upon; if he wins, the award will be awarded posthumously
2016 President Election:
- Hillary Clinton: wins the popular vote by 2.5 million votes (and maybe more); despite winning the popular vote, says Russian hackers rigged the system against her; she lost the electoral vote; did not visit the state of Wisconsin even once during the campaign; apparently she was unaware that the US elects presidents based on the results of the Electoral College and not the popular vote.
- Al Sharpton: #BlackLivesMatter is "not anti-cop" speech; 24 hours later, #BLM-inspired shooter kills three Baton Rouge cops; injures many more
The Nominees
- Geico Rock Award: Best In Show
- Geico Rock Award: Group Award
- Geico Rock Award: Intermittent Energy
- Geico Rock Award: Bakken Boom, Williston Region
- Geico Rock Award: Bakken Boom, Dickinson Region
- Geico Rock Award: Radicalized Muslim Terror, Western Hemisphere
- Geico Rock Award: Radicalized Muslim Terror, Europe
- Geico Rock Award: Radicalized Muslim Terror, Mideast
- Geico Rock Award: State Government
- 2Geico Rock Award: 2016 Presidential Election
- Geico Rock Award: Miscellaneous
Winners will be announced, assuming I don't get bored with this activity, or that I don't forget, on/about December 31, 2016.
Geico Rock Award: Environmental activists and warmists
- BNSF trains in Willmar, MN, could be traveling in both directions
- Global warming is making the historic 2016 winter storm worse
- Prof Peter Wadhams, Cambridge, predicating as recently as late summer, the Arctic Ocean would be ice-free this year
- Natural Resources Defense Council: realizing ten years late that biofuels are worse than oil.
- The individual who spent his life savings (about $40,000) to save a few bucks/month on utility costs
- The Minnesota couple who failed to notice how inexpensive natural gas was
- NY Times writer, Eduardo Porto, who points out the obvious
- Strippers and their patrons who failed to notice the Bakken boom was over
- Tim Rezvan: it takes time to bring a DUC on-line
Geico Rock Award: Radicalized Muslim Terror, Western Hemisphere
- Hillary: her misunderstanding of the Benghazi situation; went to bed early, knowing she could read about it in the morning
- Obama: his under-estimation of the JV team; went golfing; would get the intel briefing on the 15th tee
- Newsweek: posting the story that Muslims are forming "nations within nations" -- apparently not understanding the basics of Islam
- Merkel: on opening her country's borders, before realizing, "maybe not such a good idea"
- Shi-ite cleric who lost his head speaking out in a country where speaking out is frowned upon; if he wins, the award will be awarded posthumously
- FERC wants to know why electricity transmission costs are so high in New England
- Janet Yellen: economic outlook uncertain
- Marco Rubio, Presidential aspirant (and smartest of the group) is not aware that the US oil export ban has been lifted
- US official: yes, it appears to be terrorism
- Two NY Times staff writers note that ObamaCare marketplaces are in trouble
- Two Tennessee state "officials" note that Tennessee is ground zero for the ObamaCare implosion
Geico Rock Award: 2016 Presidential Election
- President Obama: I knew Hillary was going to win anyway.
- Hillary Clinton: wins the popular vote by 2.5 million votes (and maybe more); despite winning the popular vote, says Russian hackers rigged the system against her; she lost the electoral vote; did not visit the state of Wisconsin even once during the campaign; apparently she was unaware that the US elects presidents based on the results of the Electoral College and not the popular vote.
- Peak Oil blog is still up and running
- Danny DeVito: the US is a racist nation
- Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon; he apparently did not hear his boss' speech on putting coal companies out of business.
- Robert Frank and Rick Newman: noting that some states do not have a state income tax; and some folks take advantage of this little known fact
- Rick Newman, Yahoo!Finance: noting that Saudi Arabia knows something about oil that the rest of us don't know.
- Ken Hall, Three Affiliated Tribes Councilman: for not knowing the "Pocahontas" story and how it related to Elizabeth Warren and Harvard University.
- Al Sharpton: #BlackLivesMatter is "not anti-cop" speech; 24 hours later, #BLM-inspired shooter kills three Baton Rouge cops; injures many more
- Janet Yellen: the slow recovery confounds economic experts
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Past Winners
Geico Rock Award: Best in Show, 2015: SecState John "I Served In Vietnam" Kerry: Rejection of Iran Deal Will Lead to U.S. Dollar Not Being the World's Reserve Currency.
Geico Rock Award: Best in Show, 2014: Ted Cruz was not aware he was a Canadian, that he had dual citizenship, until the media reported it. Once he found out, it took him nine months to officially renounce it. Coincidentally this was about the same time he got serious about running for president. This guy graduated from Harvard Law School.
Geico Rock Award: Best in Show, 2013: Devon Shire over at SeekingAlpha for reporting that Bakken oil production was decreasing the day before the Director's Cut came out, suggesting otherwise. Link here.
Geico Rock Award: Best in Show, 2012:
We Can't Drill Our Way to Lower Gas Prices --
President Barack Obama with best advisers money can buy
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Speaking Of Gasoline At Low Prices
CNBC is reporting:
While gas prices are low nationwide, some stations are slashing the fuel's price to rock-bottom levels to the tune of less than 50 cents a gallon.
The drastic price cuts are part of a gas price war at three Houghton Lake, Mich., stations.
During the last three days, the prices dropped below a buck per gallon, falling as low as 46 cents at Sunrise Marathon. Meanwhile, the Beacon & Bridge gas station was as low as 47 cents, said employees of each station in interviews with CNBC.
A nearby Citgo says its prices slumped to 95 cents a gallon.
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