On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:26:14 -0800, Oren wrote:

... for electronic motoring purposes

"The jailed Amish bishop accused of spearheading a beard- and
hair-cutting campaign against religious foes today told a federal
judge that he is willing to install electricity in his home to
accommodate an electronic monitoring device if granted bond before
trial."

[...]

"While the Amish do not believe that “electricity is per se evil,”
according to Mullet’s motion, they stay off the public grid because
they believe “electricity allows for the introduction of modern
appliances that can cause family and community members not to reply
upon each other.”

It's pretty clear that they don't think cars are per se evil, because
they don't object, I'm told by someone who should know, to their 16 to
18 year old children** having cars. Sometimes they park them right on
their parents' property and walk to the farm house. They don't expect
their children to join the religion until they are 18 or 20 or 21, I
think it is, and that's when they agree not to have cars and
electrical things. ISTM if they thought cars were intrinsically evil,
they would tell their sons not to have them at all.

**Or at least the boys. I don't know if they draw a distinction.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/amish-wants-electronic-monitoring-654912