For one of his later films, the romance “Daddy Long Legs” (1955), Johnny Mercer wrote Astaire a fantastic song entitled “Something’s Gotta Give” that has since become an often-covered American standard. “When an irresistible force such as you meets an old immovable object like me,” the song begins, “you can bet just as sure as you live — something’s gotta give, something’s gotta give, something’s gotta give.” In other words, so long as North Carolina remains an attractive place to live, work, invest and rear children, highway usage will go up. North Carolina is one of the best stewards of highway dollars in the United States, according to annual rankings by the Reason Foundation. Something’s gotta give.