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<title>Randal O'Toole (Author at The Cato Institute)</title>
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The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government.
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				<title>Randal O'Toole (Cato Institute)</title>
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				<title>High-Speed Rail: The Wrong Road for America (Policy Analysis)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9753</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In the face of high energy prices and concerns about global warming, environmentalists and planners offer high-speed rail as an environmentally friendly alternative to driving and air travel. California, Florida, the Midwest, and other parts of the country are actively considering specific high-spee...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Housing Boom, Bust and an Artificial Shortage (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=769</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Rail Versus Gas (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=767</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Rails Won't Save America (Briefing Paper)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9703</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Rising gas prices and concerns about greenhouse
gases have stimulated calls to build
more rail transit lines in urban areas, increase
subsidies to Amtrak, and construct a large-scale
intercity high-speed rail system. These megaprojects
will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, but
they won't ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Big Burdens from Growth Management (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9701</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Median family incomes in Raleigh, N.C., almost are identical to those in Seattle, Wash., but a family purchasing a house in Seattle would have to pay more than twice as much as for a similar home in Raleigh. The additional cost almost entirely is due to a form of restrictive land-use regulation know...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Light-Rail Systems Are a False Promise (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9644</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Rail transit has become such an albatross around the necks of the American cities that have it that it is hard to imagine that anyone of good will would wish it upon Kansas City. Rail transit is expensive to build, to operate and maintain.
One of rail transit’s dirty secrets is that the entire syst...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Cancel FasTracks (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9629</link>
				<description><![CDATA[With a base salary of $290,000, RTD general manager Cal Marsella is one of the highest-paid public officials in Colorado, so he must be a smart guy. Yet it took him four years to admit what Jon Caldara and researchers at the Independence Institute knew before the 2004 FasTracks vote: There is no way...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>The Federal Role in Transportation Planning (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=706</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Clearing the Air and Transit (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=701</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Real Global Warming Fix (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9520</link>
				<description><![CDATA[As concern over global warming grows, urban planning advocates have jumped on the bandwagon by claiming cities should reduce their carbon footprints by investing more in transit and compact development. However, these claims are not supported by the data, most of which show that transit and dense de...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Rail Transit Just Isn't Trying to Improve Fuel Efficiency (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9473</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Many people assume public transportation is vastly more energy efficient than cars, and that spending more money on transit will attract people out of their cars.

In 1979, University of California-Irvine economist Charles Lave showed in the Atlantic Monthly that both of these assumptions were wro...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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