Bachman and Zombies

Michelle Bachman is campaign promising $2 a gallon gas, and National Review is unsure about how she might go about achieving that, even with the vast powers the President of the United States has.  Herman Cain's promise of 5% GDP growth is more realistic.

From the post, quote:

The only policies I can think of that would surely accomplish the $2.00 a gallon target are:

1) The seizure by force and nationalized exploitation of a large proportion of the world’s oil supply.
2) The massive federal subsidization of fuel costs.
3) The fomenting of a second global recession as bad as or worse than the last one, complete with negative global GDP growth. 

Am I missing something?

Yes, you are missing something.

4) Allow a Level 4 outbreak to occur worldwide.  Zombies don't drive cars, so demand will fall significantly if 5 billion people are infected.

That would do the trick.  Zombies don't destroy drilling and refining facilities, either.  Just keep a cadre of skilled workers to operate the plants from getting killed or infected and we're set in the gas price department.

Alternatively, Bachman may be promising '$2 gas' and not '$2 a gallon gas' and is intending to go full Carter on us and make us use the vastly inferior Metric System and sell us $2 a liter gas.   Which may be cheaper, I don't know.  It's the damn Metric System!

I don't know which is more monstrous, the Zombie outbreak, or "Carter's Folly," the Metric System.  The gram, weighs as much as a simple raisin.  About as much as a paper clip, now isn't that amazin'!  PAH!