john heim, san francisco cab driver. i got statistics from a survey done on 22,000 riders in new york on taxi tv's. that is related to the 5% credit card fee. that is required of cab companies. the survey is saying that over 30% of those writers in new york city said that was the most annoying and worst experience of taking a taxi cab, second only to the high price of taking a cab. the other thing i have here is the city justification on charging as 5% to subsidize the cost on the equipment installations and the maintenance. this is saying we are only getting about 18% on average from tip prompters. taxi tv are the ones making the money. >> gas prices are killing us. we are paying $10, $15 a ship, a lot of money. we are being hit by very high credit card fees. everybody can go on the market -- bank of america, so many companies. you pay 2.5%. why is it 5% for us? who is making the profit? i have kids. we want to put our kids in good schools. we want to put we are family pe. why are you not on our side? beyond the side of