It needs to be low, but positive and keept stable. If it's to high it will be self sustaining and increasing, if it's negative everything stalls. 2% seems to fit the bill.
There could be an argument that 4% would have been just as good, and had the rest of the world united on 4% it would*. However, it would not have changed anything in last year's combat of inflation. The target would have been defended just as fiercely causing just as much collateral. Only the numbers would have been slightly different.
*Ignoring for a bit those countries that has had to fight to keep inflation up.
Well, frankly, Northern Maine isn't very much north and not enough inland to get the extremes?
Most of Scandinavia has been below -15F for a good part of the new year and being relatively dense (for Scandinavia) in EV coverage I'd say Norway is the best example of EV very cold weather performance.
We've had this same "debate" here as well with ice-owners lamenting the perceived loss of range and EV-owners responding "I know, don't care. Always works, always warm and always topped up".
If I remember correctly from bio-classes, back in the day, Virus could be either, although not enough to form a complete cell. Granted, it has been almost 30 years since those classes, but the wiki seems to agree.
As opposed to the virus itself, which is might be DNA (or RNA), which breach the cell boundary, which highjack the DNA-replicating parts of the cell to do what the bacteria does in the description IHeartBadCode writes, using the same enzymes to do whatever it's DNA code has randomly come up with.
So deciding to have Tesla leave the Nordics, some of the most EV dense countries, will not only hurt Tesla and give the competition an edge, it might actually cost him stock in spaceX? Is that the analysis here?
And that's the reasoning that is no longer working for the tobacco industry. "What do you mean, my fault? I only provided the gun, and the ammo and..."
So, if tobacco companies are now sued for knowing about the I'll effects while continuing production, Opec will face the same fate some day. When 1,5c is no longer obtainable, the world will want a scale goat.
So, in a word... And I say this as a European non-english speaker, so I may have got meaning and culture all wrong... It would be unpatriotic?