Feature: Soaring fuel costs make life difficult for Spainish taxi drivers


By UnreguserChen Chen

BARCELONA, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Lola Exposito has been driving one of Barcelona's iconic black-and-yellow taxi cabs for the past 16 years.

Having survived the 2008 economic downturn, the competition with Uber and the coronavirus pandemic, she considers herself lucky.

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