jimbo, if a person was to read your comparison with no other source of information, they would be convinced that electric is good and gas is bad. It's not so simple. I have done a lot of research to get ready to buy a new cart this summer, and I think you left out some compelling factual information. For instance, you mention you have to check the oil on a gas cart, but you don't mention that you also have to check the water in your batteries on an electric cart. And you come up with a figure of $125 a year for oil changes. From my research on Yamaha gas carts, they hold one U.S. quart of oil in a filterless splash type system. So the annual cost of oil changes should be only the cost of three quarts of oil, assuming you do it yourself. If I were to pay someone to do it, I wouldn't give him $35 for the fifteen minutes required to change one quart of oil with no filter. You make no mention of the huge range advantage currently enjoyed by gas carts, and no mention that over half of U.S. electricity is produced in coal burning plants which DO have a carbon footprint. I am leaning toward electric for some of the reasons you state, but I think your data is slanted toward electric.
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