Zombies! What are you going to do when...

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by August

Me, I prefer an armored roadwarrior type vehicle like Task Force envisions. Even stationary you're only vulnerable if you have to leave it. You can carry more weaponry, more loot, more people, more everything, and if zombies get in your way you just run them down and squish them.

I agree that any type of vehicle would provide superior protection, speed and even killing power to the horse. After all, zombies are rotten and squishy; you can just run them over and they'll splatter. Still, the real problem is fuel. There won't be that many people remaining, so supply will not be a problem, but what can be done when there is no power to operate the gasoline pumps? You can have 10,000 gallons of fuel right underneath you, but in any post-apocalypic scenario the power grid required to operate the pumps will only run for a few days after the event. After that, no more electricity, no more refrigeration and no more gasoline.

The argument could be made that one could stockpile fuel right as the event hits, but I am not so certain. I would imagine that the first 72 hours of any zombie apocalypse would be a veritable orgy of chomping and blood. Any and all of us survivors would, naturally, have to flee from the population centers during that time, and we likely not be able to return before the power was out.