And while they are at it, find a way to get EV owners to pay their share of taxes for road maintenance, now covered largely by the gas tax.

Obviously, those choices are all better than your broken car in for repairs, at the moment.

What HP does it get compared to the 6 cylinder?

The numbers reported are based on trading in their EV for and SUV, a switch, not those that keep one and buy a second vehicle. You could be right, but you have no data to show that they own a second EV at the time of trade in.

Probably not Tesla, but Leaf owners tend to be younger, and many single. Many get married, have kids, and decide to move to an SUV. Sounds very plausible. I doubt it is fuel cost alone, but rather functionality and changing needs or desires as well.

Its to protect a secret cache of Gordon Lightfoot recordings. Worth untold sums of money.

It is very hard to deregulate electrical because it has an instantaneous supply/demand response, hence the consideration of unique methods. Also, a short sighted market may not be best for long term planning needs that require large investment with very long term ROI. Its not like the deregulation of the phone companies, which although it was messy, worked out for the better.

Yes, it has nothing to do with politics, just acceptance of facts.

"root causes" would have been more appropriate, as you hinted. They have little to do with the schools, IMHO, but rather the environment outside the schools. Taking kids out of that environment as much as possible in their earliest, most formative years is not something most openly want talk about much. Pay teachers all you want, give them the most creative or proven curricula and materials and beautiful classrooms, and it won't make much of a difference. Give children a solid support structure outside of school if you want to make a difference. But its much easier to blame it on the schools and keep it focused there.

Maybe he will keep a piece of land between him and the new neighborhood, and then the new surrounding neighbors will not complain about a studio......but rather support it.

What would really tick them off is if he filmed a movie in that neighborhood when its done.

But spending more is easy. Addressing the root cause is hard, particularly in a accountability averse culture.

What they do between now and the proposed merger date should have no bearing on the decision. It should be based on what they've done before the application was submitted, and what they commit to doing long term after the merger is approved. But somehow they'll probably do some superficial things to squeak out an approval.

STAB is the one you want.