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THERE’S AN APP NOW FOR GAS DELIVERY               While ignоring оutdаted regulаtiоns is prаctically a virtue in this age of disruptive innovation, there are good reasons for the careful control of gasoline. Whether or not the practices are safe, some wonder why companies are pouring resources into an area that so many are trying to innovate out of existence.             It is hard to imagine a less hospitable niche for a startup to enter than gasoline – a combustible commodity that is (one hopes) being innovated into obsolescence. And yet, over the past 18 months, at least six startups have launched some variation on the theme of “Uber for gas” – your car’s tank gets refilled while it is parked somewhere.             The gas delivery startup founders all share similar origin stories: a point of friction that can be translated into an app. Nick Alexander, founder of Yoshi, said he hated going to the gas station and had run out of gas recently, so he came up with the concept where someone comes and fills your car up. For Al Donzis, founder of WeFuel, the moment came when he was trying to get gas in the middle of winter and realized he had forgotten his gloves. For Frank Mycroft, founder of Booster Fuels, it was during his wife’s pregnancy when he started refueling her car as well as his own. “It wore on me,” Mycroft said. “I didn’t like doing it.”             The tales of gas station woe are the kind of first-world problems that have inspired new startups. But delivering large quantities of a toxic and flammable liquid is significantly more complicated – and regulated – than delivering sandwiches. The companies generally source their gasoline from the same distributors that supply 10,000-gallon tankers to retail gas stations. But the app companies put the fuel into the back of pickup trucks or specially designed mini-tankers. WeFuel only services cars in open air, corporate parking lots on private property, but other companies offer to refill your car wherever it’s parked.             And while ignoring outdated regulations is practically a virtue in this age of disruptive innovation, there are good reasons for the careful control of gasoline. “Some of the companies are using 1,000-gallon tanks,” warned California state fire marshal Greg Andersen. “If they’re going into the basement parking lot of a high rise, that actually is a large concern.”             Several of the startups treat their regulatory compliance as a selling point. “You’re supposed to have a fire extinguisher,” said Chris Aubuchon, co-founder of Filld. “We have two.” Yoshi’s Alexander said, “We’re using DOT-certified equipment. We’ve had our trucks inspected by multiple parties, including the highway patrol.”             But it’s not clear that Filld and Yoshi actually are in compliance with the law. Both companies offer their service in San Francisco, where Lt Jonathan Baxter of the fire department says mobile fuel delivery is not currently permitted. He added that none of the companies have even sought permits. Andersen further suggests that the companies currently operating in California are exploiting a “gray area” in the fire code. There are regulations that allow for mobile fueling with diesel, but the code is silent on gasoline, presumably because no one was offering the service before last year.             But whether or not the companies’ practices are safe and legitimate, it’s hard not to wonder at founders and investors pouring their resources into an area that so many other tech companies are trying to innovate out of existence. “I shy away from these startups because you spend the same amount of effort innovating in a dying market as you do in a growing one,” said Jason Calcanis, a tech investor and entrepreneur. “On-demand valet services, gas delivery and even car ownership itself will get demolished by the one-two punch of Uber and Tesla.”             Of course, while we wait for the invention that will avert climate collapse without requiring too much sacrifice on our parts, there is still plenty of money to be made in gasoline. “Today’s cars are going to be around for the next 15 to 20 years, so I don’t see our business going away, even though I welcome that change,” Filld’s Aubuchon said.