"The rising fuel cost keeps eating into my income,” says 60-year-old Ramsurat, an app-based cab driver in New Delhi. Ramsurat first felt the pinch back in the 90s, when he was a young truck driver in his hometown of Uttar Pradesh. The 1990-91 Gulf War between Kuwait and Iraq pushed up fuel costs in India, which impacted truck driver incomes, forcing him and others like him to move to Delhi in search of work opportunities. (Source: Dialogue Earth)