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The conflict in Ukraine has sent fuel prices soaring in Europe, hitting people’s pocketbooks, prompting some to walk more and forcing taxis to change their routines. With prices rising above two euros ($2.2) per litre at the pump, Paris taxi driver Aziz Brahmi said he now avoids driving around to look for passengers. “The only thing I can do is to limit driving in an empty car,” said Brahmi, 38, who usually travels around 200 kilometres (125 miles) per day. “We wait for clients to come to us and we no longer look for them,” he said near Paris’ ring road. London cabbies have adopted the same st…