Re: Car Insurance Renewal time again

by **Alby** on Mon 24 May 2010 - 18:59

The worst part is how long this is going to take to clean up.

by **Vampire Girl** on Mon 24 May 2010 - 19:03

Alby wrote:The worst part is how long this is going to take to clean up.

Yes I know... it is a real utter shame.. i hope that they can clean it all up. By looks in the news it is pretty bad. all the poor animals.. And i wonder what teh long term impact this will have.

by **JayCee** on Tue 25 May 2010 - 23:12

Long term it will be OK its the short term where all the problems are. In other spills nature has always found ways to repair itself, and usually quicker than expected.

by **Vampire Girl** on Thu 27 May 2010 - 8:22

Well Jay I sure do hope so... the oil is still flowing out. They have not capped the well yet.. i hope that they will be able to stop it.

by **JayCee** on Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 7:28

I think they are now on attempt number 99.
I know its bad for you guys in the States but we are not doing too well over here either. BP are the biggest contributor to the many pension funds we have and it looks like everyone is going to suffer a loss.

by **Vampire Girl** on Tue 1 Jun 2010 - 9:00

JayCee wrote:I think they are now on attempt number 99.
I know its bad for you guys in the States but we are not doing too well over here either. BP are the biggest contributor to the many pension funds we have and it looks like everyone is going to suffer a loss.

Wow Jaycee.. so sorry to hear that! How is BP a huge contributor to many pension funds there? Are they that big of an employer? Or is it a stock market investment issue? Just curious. confused

by **JayCee** on Mon 5 Jul 2010 - 2:18

It looks like most funds have shares in BP and rely on the income from them to pay out. Just now the shares are at 50% of 'usual' price and as you will have heard there are no dividends being paid this time around. The better a fund is run the less of a problem this will be. There again if the bankers are involved maybe we should all pack up now. affraid

by **LeslieG** on Tue 6 Jul 2010 - 4:16

sanshoe wrote:
Alby wrote:Unless I've got my sums wrong, that could be around 80 or 90 cents per litre Aus.
Sanshoe might be able to help out here.
Still a lot cheaper than us.

$2.82us = $3.43au>>>1Gallon =3.78litres...... divide 3.78 litres into $2.82 = 0.74c per litre au.

Now thats cheap petrol if my calculations are correct

You are correct there my friend, but you have shown that everything is not bigger in America as there are 4.546 litres to the UK Gallon. cheers

by **JayCee** on Wed 7 Jul 2010 - 2:05

Litres, metres, its a good job they have not messed with the minute or I wouldn't know where I was.
Maybe, just thinking about it, if there were 100 seconds in a minute and 100 minutes in an hour, maybe, just maybe, the trains could run on time.

by **LeslieG** on Wed 7 Jul 2010 - 4:41

If the EU decided that even time must go metric how about 10 seconds to the minute and 10 minutes to the hour etc etc. That would certainly make time fly John and we would get people living to 1000 years old. affraid