[SteveFromNY]

I wish people would show a little more respect for other people's choices.

I definitely gave due consideration to the choice of gas vs electric when I purchased my gas cart. I thought about the fumes, and the noise. I would have preferred to use an "environmentally perfect" vehicle like an electric cart.

But, for the vary same reason we all don't own electric automobiles, they lack RANGE. I don't care how many people say they can get everywhere they want to go in their electric cart, a gas cart can go further. For instance, I drive the cart from my house to Sweet Bay and back (round trip approximately 5 miles), then to SS for lunch (maybe 10 mile round trip) then I go and take an evening ride with a cigar (1 hour - at 20mph factoring in all of the stops and slowdowns maybe 15 miles). That's approximately 30 miles. An electric cart has a range of about 40 miles. Add a round of golf, and I'm easily at the edge of the range of the cart. Or if I'm not at the edge, I think I am, so I might as well be. I won't use the cart without charging it for some 8 hours again. My mobility is limited by the choice of an electric cart. That was a paramount concern for me. I too have seen electric carts pushed off to the roadside. I don't want that to be me.

I may be paranoid, but there seems to be 2 schools of thought out here, gas vs. anti-gas. Not gas vs electric. It's like folks are trying to lay a guilt trip on the gas cart owners. I find it lacks the fundamental respect we ought to show one another.

My 2 cents...