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National usage fee alliance 28 states are in various stages of following down the same road. but there are many concerns. like privacy. two of the three orego systems track and store a car's every move. >> to put a gps monitor in everybody's car, you know the government already knows too much about us as it is. >> reporter: others question the cost. getting the gas tax is cheap. but orego vendors will eat up 40 cents of every dollar collected. for those not used to paying any gas tax, it could be a whole new sticker shock every month. jeff fallon of drive oregon supports the usage fee to a poi...

So cut you off and move to the next one. >> i was looking for somebody to blame. the average american family spends about $1,000 a year on cell phone bills including hundreds of mystery charges most of us don't even look at, don't understand and don't need either. >> and you don't have to spend that much. abc's rebecca jarvis shows us how to cut that bill. >> it's a tough expense for so many families like the wilsons. >> i feel like we're still paying a lot of money for cell phones. >> this dallas family of five wants to cut their $195 monthly wireless bill and add their daughter to the plan. ...

Let's say. shares jumped higher after a takeover bid and the group offered a second option where it would spin off the e-leader note. no decision off that deal. $19 billion. that's a lot of money. that's what facebook is paying for whatsapp. >> yeah, that's that popular messaging service like a social network site. you can send videos, texts and voice messages but you don't pay the usage fee like you do to your cell phone carrier. what do you pay? $1 as a membership fee. >> this app has 50 million users and adding about 1 million universe a day. cnn analyst and host of "technique bytes" bret...

>> it might be. nobody has the right to bitch about their roads needing repaired, their potholes, unless you're willing to step up and pay for it. >> every day we pay gax taxes already. >> i can talk about the gas taxes until the cows come home. the gas tax hasn't gone up. the federal gas tax has not gone up for 20 years. and the cost of road construction and repair has gone up by 55% over that time. it is a usage fee. it is a tax on those people using the roads. now i will say, if you're happy with the state of the roads, fine, don't raise it. but if you want the roads repaired, you either ha...

To look out because they'll have to make up the lost revenue from somewhere. >> i definitely think that banks will try to find other ways to charge customers. it might be new fees, maintenance fee for your checking account, debit card usage fee. but they're not going to take a loss in revenue. >> nyu won't be charged by the atm company right there at that time of transaction. you could be still charged on the back end by your bank. >> shep: my bank charges me all the time, but if i even go to an atm that's free, i think i would be willing to watch the message unless they're lining up behind me...