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All Lyft Rides Are Now Carbon Neutral
- ethansinjin 8y agoThis is highly laudable and a great step in the right direction. Something that struck me though: what about all the time drivers are - idling and waiting for a ride - driving to a pick-up point - driving to and from a high-demand area It seems like the act of working as a Lyft driver would contribute more carbon dioxide than other jobs or contract positions.
- aoner 8y agoThe cool thing is, now that they are paying for the extra carbon pollution it pays to try to mitigate these types of issues. The less carbon dioxide they pollute the better it is for their bottom line
- Eridrus 8y agoI think the GP was asking whether those emissions were being offset, or only emissions incurred during rides.
- maxander 8y agoIt’s a valid point, but there are also factors in the other direction- for instance, there are people who would have chosen to buy cars if ride sharing weren’t available, and this would have led to greenhouse gas emission through their manufacture, trips taken lazily by car rather than walking, and etc.
- aoner 8y agoToo bad they are not available in Amsterdam. This is the kind of thing that would make me use lyft instead of something else. I wish more products would be carbon neutral or negative. I also liked stripe's move and I think slowly more companies are changing this.
- oldgradstudent 8y agoI thought selling indulgences stopped with the protestant reformation.
- polynomial 8y agoHow are they able to do this without it making their rides significantly less competitive against the other ride apps that are not C-neutral?
- maxander 8y agoThe market for ride-sharing services is over $17B [1], of which Lyft accounts for about a quarter. This is cited as a “multimillion dollar” effort- it’s likely barely a drop in the bucket. (And nice marketing, to boot.) [1] https://www.statista.com/outlook/368/109/ride-sharing/united-states# https://www.statista.com/outlook/368/109/ride-sharing/united...
- polynomial 8y agoIf Lyft accounts for 25% and they have made every/all Lyft rides carbon neutral, that would be more than a drop in the bucket. It would be 1/4th. However I don't understand where they are getting the money to pay for the carbon offsets without raising their price point above the competition.