Article: Is congestion pricing answer to gas woes?

Libertarians have a maddening way of confronting problems with simple supply-and-demand arguments that are hard to refute. So it was last week when Randal O'Toole came by the office to discuss Utah's highway needs.

O'Toole is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a Libertarian think-tank in Washington. But he is not an East Coast elitist. His thin bow tie, casual shirt and gray beard make him look every bit the small-town Oregon resident he is. He understands western U.S. cities and their challenges, although he is particularly familiar with Portland, Ore., a city he spares no punches ridiculing for policies he says have increased congestion, raised taxes and forced families to move across ...

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