You want weather? Got plenty of weather you can have! Between the flooding, the temperature changes, and let’s not forget the freaking tornadoes that walked around BangShift Mid-West this weekend, I’ve got more than enough weather to spare for quite some time to come. Don’t want weather? Ok, how about some slightly roasted leftover news tidbits to tide you over until Mother Nature gets back on her loxitane and calms the hell down? We’ve got plenty of that, and it doesn’t come with a little Terrier following you around, either.

1. That’s gotta hurt…To BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla has gone from being a minor irritation to a major thorn in the ass in the only way possible: the Model S has outsold the traditional high-end models, while posting an overall sales rise, in Europe. It’s bad enough if it had happened in the States, but Tesla is stomping the Europeans on their home turf. Admittedly, they really are the only ones offering an EV like this right now, but if the pace stays once cars like the Audi E-Tron and the Jaguar i-Pace hit the market, there might be a lot of new swear words being heard at auto shows.

2. Bad ideas written all over this one.Infrastructure…it’s always a hot-button topic on how to fund it, but in the Annual Economic Report, a worrying note cropped up: the White House’s recognition of Oregon’s testing of a mileage tax. Oregon has been testing this tax using citizens who opted in voluntarily, at the rate of 1.7 cents per mile while getting rebates on fuel taxes. On the other side of the coin is a hike on fuel taxes, as much as a quarter a gallon.

Why the discussion? Because the President called for $200 billion in federal spending to kick off $1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending, and roadways and interstates could certainly use some of the attention. Part of the problem is that cars and trucks have become so fuel-efficient that the tax of 18.4 cents per gallon on gasoline and 24.4 cents on diesel is no longer enough, according to the powers that be.

This is also the same report that believes that driverless cars could add up to $200 billion to GDP, 2.4 million jobs and $90 billion in wages to the work force once half of the vehicles on the road become more independent than your typical high school graduate.

3. Though, after seeing this photo, we understand the “why”…

Photo: Grand Blanc Township (MI) Police Dept.

Officer David Clark is a six-foot-five human being who is standing in a pothole that is deeper than his knees. That isn’t a pothole, that’s a front subframe repair waiting to happen, at least. And it’s a problem across the country. Whether you got snow, ice and the usual winter breakup of the road, the road got washed away, or whatever, it’s pretty much unanimous: the roads suck.

4. Diesel du jour

Volkswagen’s claim that a lawyer’s comments that compared VW to Hitler while discussing a recently revealed test where the company tested diesel fumes on monkeys would keep the company from getting a fair trial got thrown out. Porsche has all but ditched diesel engines from their lineup, and just to pour salt in the wound, spy footage recently caught a Tesla semi prototype go from a neighborhood crawl into a tire-ripping acceleration run.

5. Your stay-at-home timekill is back and better than ever.

Time to go crash some cars!