I say that if Starbucks didn't want me to ride my bike to work for WHATEVER reason, then they need to discontinue their sponsorship of Bike to Work days. http://cbcef.org/btw/btw_day.html

Your managers should also read their own "Corporate Social Resposiblity Annual Report" fy 2001

Transportation

The burning of fossil fuels while transporting raw materials, products and people
is a significant contributor to global warming and other environmental concerns.
Our present focus is on improving fuel efficiency for the modest fleet of shuttle
vans, trucks and other vehicles Starbucks owns and operates. The metric used is
the average miles per gallon (mpg) for our company-owned fleet. Our baseline is
17.48 mpg.
Several years ago we established the Transportation Options Program (TOP) to help
our partners find commuting alternatives to and from Starbucks headquarters.The
program provides subsidies to partners who use commuting alternatives in an effort
to reduce traffic congestion, air pollution and minimize other environmental impacts
associated with driving cars. Approximately 500 of our 2000 corporate Starbucks
partners used alternative commuting options such as biking, carpooling or public
transit in fiscal 2001. Starbucks received King County’s local Commuter Challenge
Diamond Award for our efforts to promote carpooling to work at our Seattle-based

headquarters in January 2001.



fy 2002
Transportation
The company has undertaken specific activities to
reduce the impact of commuting at Starbucks
Support Center (SSC) in Seattle where approximately
2,300 partners work. Starbucks Transportation
Options Program (TOP) provides
subsidies to partners for using public transit and
alternatives such as biking and carpooling. In
fiscal 2002, approximately 600 SSC partners, or
26%, participated in TOP, compared to 25% in
fiscal 2001.
In April 2001, Starbucks contracted with Flexcar,™ an innovative car-sharing network that provides vehicles,
including a fuel-efficient Honda Civic gas/electric hybrid, for our SSC partners during the workday so they can
leave their cars at home. In fiscal 2002, approximately 150 partners participated in the Flexcar™ program.


I would ask them to give you a flex car for your deposit runs.

I know that these reports are from fy 2001 and 2002, but the enviromental aspects of the report should still stand. The most recent report I saw on the website was for fy 2007 http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/csr...csr_fy2007.pdf