That's nothing compared to the $6,000 and $7,000 golf carts the federal governement was buying for taxpayer's last year. That's right, if you would have bought the right ("qualified") electric golf cart at the right time the fed would have issued you a tax credit for just about 100% of the purchase price! You could have potentially got a bigger tax credit from buying an electric golf cart than from buying a new house (if you qualified for the homebuyer tax credit as a someone who had owned their previous house for five years or longer).