Quote (piatek @ Feb 16 2023 03:47am)
A tank takes about 400-500 gallons of Diesel and does about 0.6 miles per gallon. It would run for a few hours then it's gone, you can't refill it. Petrol stations are refilled daily, when they are empty in a situation like this, it's over. Even when Covid happened we saw petrol stations temporarily close due to panic buying and abnormally high demand.
You also can't Youtube anything, there is no internet.
Your suggestions are completely unfeasible, that's why you never see anything like that depicted on these types of shows/movies. There are finite resources, people in the first few days/months will loot everything. Nothing new is being produced, mined or extracted. Daily life would be looking for todays meal and trying to scrounge a weapon and some bullets here and there, maybe occasionally syphoning a vehicle for a litre of fuel if you're lucky, to run a generator for
a short time.
But sure, tell us how you would eradicate all the infected billions in the world by driving a tank or tractor around. As I said before, they are not lined up in open areas in single file waiting to be mowed down, they are mostly in buildings, sewers and tunnels. You might see 1 or 2 randomly in an open field, nothing worth driving a tank around for hours for.
If majority of the population turns into zombies they won't be driving or going outside. They will be locked up in their house. Zombies don't use gas so there will be an abundance of abandoned cars, tankers and shipping containers full of gas. The tanks, bulldozers and other heavy machines would be abandoned. You don't need to drive for hours with a tank or a digger. Get some friends to round up zombies to come to you. Put on a siren and drive them to the open area. There is many heavy machines around industrial areas. One runs out of gas hop into another one or fill it up after you kill a wave of zombies.
Running over hoards of zombies is but one of many effective ways to kill mass zombies.
You could also funnel them onto a bridge and set up few dozen men with hunting rifles and shoot them all day.
You could fill a fire truck with gas instead of water and spray them from the safety of high ground or behind a fence then light them up.
You could set up kill boxes as you mentioned
You could get some dynamite grenades, Molotov cocktails literally any military grade explosives which America has abundance and just blow them up.
Send a kill squad every day that goes out and shoots zombies all day comeback and repeat. There is only so many zombies in your town or city before you eventually kill them all. I live in a town of 80,000 people even if all of them turned into zombies and it was just me and say 10 other people left we would need to shoot 10 zombies a day for a couple of years maximum.
Find any well fenced off area, or a bridge, other side of a river bank or any obstacle which zombies cannot cross proceed to shoot and throw Molotov cocktails at them from the other side.
You could set up a trap that involves them walking over a slippery/rotating surface. Just at the top of my head find 2 buildings of same height, fix a thin plank that requires balance to walk across, grease it up so that anyone trying to cross would easily slip down onto hard concrete below. Put a goat on one side and lock the place up so that to get to the goat is from the other side. Zombies will eventually die to gravity as they try and get the goat. Bring goat some hay and water every few days and watch the zombies pile up. Use a bulldozer to move the corpses repeat untill they all die.
I mean I am just spitting endless amount of ways to kill zombies I could go on and on