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Re:My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford by colechristensen on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @07:17PM (#20511070)
It would but it isn't a great suggestion. If you're trying to optimize costs you can beat that by a huge factor.

$0.58 per mile is about how much it costs to lease a car at $350/month and pay for gas, which is what you would do in an upper middle class job requiring lots of travel.

So if you get a new, fairly nice car every three years and use it exclusively for Lyft, you won't make any money.

If you want to make more money than zero, own your car for longer and do some of the maintenance yourself.

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Re:My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford by bryanlarsen on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @09:19AM (#20514945)
>So if you get a new, fairly nice car every three years and use it exclusively for Lyft, you won't make any money.

Doesn't Lyft require you to drive a fairly new, fairly nice car?

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