Sales are bad. The cost is too high and the benefit and usefulness too underwhelming. The Pentagon is shoring up sales by buying them.
I've got a solution - presidential golf carts. Go green to the green. The president can then claim every golf trip as a way of building up the post fossil fuel economy. See - he's really working.
And he golfs enough, and they are troubled enough, he might actually double demand for the things. He's creating jobs. No matter that they are con jobs...