In July 2019, Escobar Inc started selling a propane torch made to look like a flamethrower and accused CEO of The Boring Company Elon Musk of intellectual property theft, alleging that The Boring Company's promotional Not-a-Flamethrower is based on a design that Roberto Escobar discussed in 2017 with an engineer associated with Musk.[24] Via media Escobar Inc publicly offered Musk to settle the dispute for $100 million,[25] in cash or shares of Tesla, or alternatively to use the legal system to become the new CEO of Tesla, Inc.[26]