Day One: Our planned departure being delayed by the installation of trailer wiring, we fueled up and departed the FirmGreen Green Energy Center at 1800 hours 22nd February, 2010. The FirmGreen Machine roared to life as all eight cylinders aspirated the cleanest commercially available fuel in the world: FGE’s biomethane or “gCNG” produced at the Franklin County Landfill in Grove City, Ohio. Just as our forefathers set forth westward across this great nation in search of manifest destiny, we too ventured towards the “New Frontier”; the “Green Energy Frontier”.
Our first refueling destination was Kyler Brothers Services located at 4355 Lafayette Boulevard in Indianapolis, Indiana. A steady drizzle accompanied us west bound on I-70 all the way to Indy, but with temperatures above freezing the road conditions were fair. I had called Tom Kyler a few days before our departure. Tom was still melancholy over the stunning upset by the Saints over the Colts in the Superbowl, but tried his best to be pleasant on the phone as he informed me that their station was available for public use 24 hours a day seven days a week.
We discovered that acess to the Kyler Brothers station was easy, right off of I-65 just north of downtown Indy. At 2145 hours we pulled into a well lit fueling island at the Kyler Brothers Station. This is an unmanned station but the posted fueling instructions made our refueling stop a breeze. We had gone 187.4 miles from our home base in Grove City and had taken on 20.39 GGE’s of CNG. The pump price was $1.59/gge and the total cost of the fill up was $32.43. After stretching our legs and taking a moment to reflect on what lay ahead we mounted up and headed West towards St. Louis.
Check out Google Maps as we chart the trip
