Wow! I'm having flashbacks to the days when boating was my major diversion.
This reminds me of when sailboat owners referred to motorboats as "stinkpots."
I owned both but preferred the motorboat. Water skiing behind a sailboat can be difficult. Also, when you have a specific destination and a specific time frame you don't want to depend on the vagaries of the wind.
Similarly, I now have a gas golf cart. The house I'm in came with an electric cart. It didn't take long for "can I get home anxiety" to set in. That, along with having to be pushed up the hill when emerging from a tunnel, was enough to send me to the store to make a change.
I haven't done a diligent search in TOTV, but my guess is that there are a lot more threads about problems with electric carts than with gas carts. And there is one thing the electric cart people can depend upon...... there
will come a day when the batteries need replacing and it
will be expensive.
In the mean time, I keep oil and gas in my cart and get an annual tune up. The governor that keeps the speed at a legal 20 mph or less means that I am not putting a strain on the motor, which is actually capable of going much faster so I am not wearing the motor out by running "wide open" even with the gas pedal all the way down.
The electric cart owners on this thread who complain about the fumes when riding behind a gas cart or through a tunnel forget one thing. We gas cart owners also ride behind gas carts and through tunnels. I guess I'm just insensitive, but it doesn't bother me.