Funny mind-picture, Spaw! The only way I can think of that the Amishman was going to use the gasoline was for small engines. My uncle used a gas engine in the milking parlor of his dairy. And my cousin has a small-engine repair shop.

Just part of the illogic they use. I can, however, agree that finding alternatives for generating electricity may create a deliberative approach to conveniences and thus to life itself.

Just as some (non-Amish) friends here purposely didn't plumb their home, but get their spring water from a pipe on the hillside.