Grist: Since the Amish are opposed to cars, electricity, and orgies, you might think theyd frown on money, too. Like, Keep your wealth in hay bales could totally be an Amish saying, or maybe bonnets over Benjamins.
But while greed and materialism arent part of an Amish paradise, nearly 40 Amish families in eastern Ohio are taking piles of cash from oil and gas companies. Chesapeake Energy and others are paying them hundreds of thousands of dollars, tax free, in order to drill on their property....