[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

We've got a Yamaha dealer with two, now three very convenient locations within The Villages. Yamaha makes and promotes the best gas golf cart on the market. They have done a great job convincing a lot of people that that is the way to go. I think that a lot of people were won over when EFI was introduced. It made the cart much quieter and made it appear to run much cleaner. The fact that you could get more miles was attractive to some people even though that's not necessarily the case anymore. If you go into one of these Yamaha dealers the sales people will tell you that 90% of the carts they sell are gas. They will say that they also sell electric, but then they will extoll the virtues of gas and especially the new EFI models.

There are plus and minuses to both gas and electric and people are going to make a choice based on their needs, wants and the effectiveness of advertising and sales presentations. Right now gas is dominating the market here in the Villages while electric dominates in the golf industry. It is much easier and less expensive to maintain a fleet of electric carts than it is gas. Golf courses are not concerned about having the cart to 50 miles in a day however.

Electric cart manufacturers are responding with new batteries and battery configurations that have electric vehicles going 50+ miles a day. I think that once people see that we'll begin to see a turn around with more electrics being sold.