“All new passenger cars, trucks and SUVs sold in Delaware that year will need to be zero emissions. It “calls for banning the sale of all new gasoline and diesel-fueled vehicles by 2035,” said Joseph Fulgham, director of policy and communications for the Delaware House Republican Caucus. John Carney’s administration joined 13 other states on California’s Advanced Clean Cars II initiative. The focus on how to pay for roads received a push in March when Gov. One way that Delaware is exploring how to recoup that revenue - already under pressure from increasing numbers of high-mileage vehicles - is through user fees that bill drivers for the number of miles a car is driven, based on a device installed in the car. Taxes on the sale of gasoline fund a huge portion of roadwork, including repaving and safety concerns, and the push is on to ban the sale of all new gasoline and diesel-fueled vehicles by 2035. Hit by a Farm is a hilarious recounting of Catherine and Melissa’s trials of “getting back to the land.” It is also a coming-of (middle)-age story of a woman trying to cross the divide between who she is and who she wants to be, and the story of a couple who say “goodbye city life” and learn more than they ever bargained for about love, land, and yes, sheep sex.As state and federal leaders push to get more electric vehicles on the road and lower the consumption of fossil fuels, a reckoning will come about how to pay for roads if nobody is buying gasoline at the pump. What ensues is a crash course in both living off and with the land that ultimately allows Catherine to help fulfill Melissa’s dreams while not losing sight of her own. When self-confessed “urban bookworm” Catherine Friend’s partner of twelve years decides she wants to fulfill her lifelong dream of owning a farm, Catherine agrees. I was there with my partner Melissa, the woman I’d lived with for twelve years, because we were going to start a farm. This took place one blustery November day when I joined other shepherd-wannabees for a class on the basics of raising sheep. Mine began crumbling the day I knelt behind a male sheep, reached between his legs, and squeezed his testicles.

Hit by a Farm by Catherine Friend