Bikes in the city are as fast or faster than the average car. (especially e-bikes).
It's been tested quite a bit.
Cars have more horsepower but the constraints of the environment prevent that power from being used.
I literally beat a McLaren down Wilkins one day (yeah, the driver probably didn't even know it was a competition;). Sure, that's essentially a race car, but on a dirt road it could be beat by a donkey cart. Same in the city. Bikes are optimized for city surface streets, cars for highways and rural travel.

A. for the same reason that motorists obsessively overtake cyclists in traffic, then "force the bikers to have to pass them at the next light anyway". That is, because they can, and they aren't really thinking ahead _at all_. Which one is the "then have to pass them" is just a matter of which side of the lens you're viewing from.
B. for that reason, I generally chose to remain in the order I arrived at *unless* the line was so long it looked like it would take multiple light cycles. In that case, I would try to arrange it to be the last one through on the first cycle, that way I had the road all to myself for the next few minutes. When Irvine St backs up for a 15-20 minute delay at 5 pm, it's just stupid for me to sit there sucking fumes and wasting my time, instead of riding to the front and being gone. It's not little old me causing the backup there, it's all the people in 6 passenger cars, riding all alone.
C. If either one of us has to pass the other twice, we're both doing something wrong.

try coleslaw and chips on it, maybe a couple of fried eggs.

Eddie V's is literally the same chain as Olive Garden

Almost never. If I'm going to be outside all day in the summer, yes, but otherwise there's no point and I'm not sure that the sunscreen chemicals are particularly good for you. Better than skin cancer, no doubt, but that's the tradeoff.

My house was about 52-55F through the cold snap. At one point the thermometer said it was 48F inside. I could have turned the heat up but I figured that I could put up with a couple of days of discomfort in order to save on the gas bill. Back to normal now. I was curious what the daily usage was but it was too cold to go out and read the meter every day.

I turned down my thermostat *because* it's this cold. I can handle being a little uncomfortable until Tuesday in order to save some money on that gas bill.

Ok, that does it. I'm making gyoza now. Just normal-sized ones, though.

I used to do it all the time on a motorcycle when I was working downtown. No trouble at all.