It took seven long years, but the greatest fictional moneymaking scheme of the 20th century is about to become real. There's a startup that wants to sell you gasoline and bring it to your home, just like the foolproof plan from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Okay, it's not exactly the same. In the season 4 episode, "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis," Charlie and company drive around in a van with trashcans full of gas and attempt to unload the fuel door-to-door. The new startup Filld, because it's a Silicon Valley startup that properly drops a vowel for no particular reason, is a bit more 21st century.

Order your gas via the app and tell Filld where your car is parked and what delivery window works best for you. Then leave your gas cap unlocked and pay a $7 service fee and the company will fill you up, negating the need to drive to the gas station. At the moment Filld has just one truck, which is driving around the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, but it hopes to expand soon.

At this point you may be wondering how it's profitable for a gas truck to drive around filling up cars around the neighborhood, and whether Filld founder Scott Hempy is actually wild card Charlie Kelly in disguise. The Verge wondered about the economics, too:

He says the company buys fuel wholesale and charges market rate per gallon. "We cut out the brick-and-mortar costs of owning a station." That leaves plenty of margin, even if Filld isn't selling slushies and Slim-Jims. "No corner real estate, no utility bills."

Hempy was supposedly inspired to start Filld when he needed gas during a long drive and imagined cars being fueled up in transit the way planes can be. He then set out to find a better way to get gas into a car. That certainly makes a better origin story than what I assume to be the real story, which is a lazy Sunday "Always Sunny" Netflix marathon.

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Source: The Verge

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