Like everybody else, I have no problems with you playing two chars, Dash.<br/><br/>Maybe more like 13 or 14? 20 people would be hard to feed with the kind of slim pickings they're dealing with. Even with rationing, they'd have probably harvested everything they could in a realistically reachable distance. They might be able to try raising/farming of some sort, though, which may mean going out looting for stuff like fertilizer, soil, plant nutrients, seeds...<br/><br/>Personally, I think 3 or 4 months or in that area would be better; enough time that they're starting to settle into their new roles, but still having hitches they get caught on. I should also stress something about time; gasoline, when  exposed to air, will go bad. (http://autos.aol.com/article/does-gas-go-bad/)<br/><br/>If it's near future, maybe they have an electric car with a jury-rigged solar charger? Or solar batteries of some sort for some things.