What Would Jesus Drive? - It's a "life-imitates-The Onion" headline, but an evangelical organization really is pushing for cleaner cars with this slogan, according to a story in today's Wall Street Journal. While you ponder image of the Risen One kicking the tires in a car lot, let me summarize the article, available only to subscribers. (The Post did a write-up a couple of weeks ago.) It seems that a group calling itself the Evangelical Environmental Network has decided that Christian Americans don't, in fact, have a God-given right to plunder the Earth as we see fit. Rather, it's kind of sinful. So to promote the higher moral value of fuel efficiency, the EEN will be paying for a campaign (including TV ads in several fly-over and Bible Belt states) urging the virtuous to forego the gas guzzlers. Detroit, which has grown accustomed to its big profit behemoths, is worried about this new attack on an old sore spot, especially as word leaks out that they may be losing ground with their friends in the White House. One wonders what Trent Lott -- perennial backer of the right to SUV's and a favorite among Mississippi-based right-wingnuts -- will do.