Virgil, I’m certain that even trucks can be engineered to be more fuel efficient (I hear hydrogen vehicles are promising,) and Walmart could certainly exemplify more kingdom values by providing healthcare to their hardworking American laborers, and at the same time, you and others could still travel around the country and feed the poor. But that takes a culture putting pressure on car companies to make the shift. If you’re pretty sure Jesus is coming back within five years, go ahead and take the short view and diesle onward, if you don’t have a Word on that one, consider ways to invest God’s love in your children’s children by caring for the earth AND the poor.

Also, consider that based on your comment about arrogance anything you are personally invested in and simultaneously promote makes you arrogant. One could also argue that that those things we promote but are not invested in make us hypocrits. Certainly when someone is invested in something they lose some objectivity, after all, “where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Personally, I don’t want my heart to hang around the deisle — imagine what it would do to my lungs?

Wish you the best.

Jemila